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Background Keeping abreast of on-going headache researches is an important task for both clinicians, researchers, and patient advocates. However, this task can be time consuming especially as on-going clinical trials are un-finished and therefore unpublished. Using clinicaltrials.gov's application programming interface, this project builds a Twitter robot, @TrialMigraine, which alerts subscribers of newly registered clinical trials on a daily basis Methods Using Haskell and Clojure, two functional programming languages, clinicaltrial.gov is accessed and searched on a daily basis for any clinical trials containing the word "headache". Resultant clinical trials are downloaded and recorded on a daily basis. The title of new clinical trials registered are reported on a daily basis on @TrialMigraine. Results @TrialMigraine has been implemented on a RaspberryPi unit since May 2020. A total of 1181 clinical trials has been reported from its inception until January 2022. Since @TrialMigraine is a Twitter account, it is available to the public without cost. Conclusion Daily reporting of on-going clinical trials through social media robot is possible and may offer various stakeholders a readily accessible in tracking the latest developments in headache medicine.