Automated Social Media Content Posting Across Facebook
Automatically posts approved images or videos from Google Sheets to your Facebook Page at scheduled times, ensuring consistent, hands-free content publishing and streamlined social media management.
This workflow automates the process of posting content (images or videos) from a Google Sheet directly to a Facebook Page. It is designed for businesses, social media managers, or marketers who want to streamline their posting process and reduce manual work. By using scheduling and conditional logic, the workflow ensures only pending content is uploaded at the right time.
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Description
This workflow automates the process of posting content (images or videos) from a Google Sheet directly to a Facebook Page. It is designed for businesses, social media managers, or marketers who want to streamline their posting process and reduce manual work. By using scheduling and conditional logic, the workflow ensures only pending content is uploaded at the right time.
Process Flow:
- Trigger: Workflow runs daily at 8 AM (or can be triggered manually).
- Fetch Data: Reads rows from a Google Sheet where the status column is marked as pending.
- Conditional Check: Determines if the row contains an image or a video link.
- Download File: Retrieves the media (image or video) from the provided link.
- Post to Facebook: Uploads the media along with its caption to the connected Facebook Page.
Benefits for Customers / Users
- Time-Saving Automation – Eliminates repetitive manual posting by handling everything automatically.
- Consistency – Ensures that content is posted on time according to schedule.
- Centralized Management – Content is managed from a single Google Sheet for easy tracking.
- Error Reduction – Reduces the chances of missed or incorrect posts by automating file handling and uploads.
Tools Used
- n8n Schedule Trigger – Runs the workflow daily at 8 AM.
- Google Sheets Node – Fetches pending posts from a content sheet.
- IF Node – Determines whether to post an image or video.
- HTTP Request Node – Downloads media files and uploads them to Facebook via Graph API.
- Facebook Graph API – Publishes images and videos directly to the Facebook Page.