Custom content calendar with automated posting

Questions
1

Is it possible to build a custom content calendar where you can add post text, images, videos or GIFs, set an exact date and time, and have the system automatically publish those posts at the scheduled time across different social media platforms (such as Telegram, Instagram, Facebook, etc.)?

2

Yes, you can build a custom content calendar with automated posting using n8n! Here’s how:

- Use Google Sheets or Airtable as your content calendar, where you can add posts with text, media, and schedule dates [turingcollege.com](Turing College)

- Set up n8n workflows to check the calendar regularly and publish to platforms like Instagram, Facebook, etc. [n8npro.in](Automate Your n8n Instagram Post Workflow)

- For multi-platform posting, consider using APIs like PostFast to handle different social networks [postfa.st](Social Media Scheduler API: Build a Posting Automation with PostFast)

3

So, check every minute? If the due date = current time, then publish?

4

Yea that could work!

5

Yes, you absolutely can do this and in fact we already have. The best way to do this is to have all of your content stored in Airtable. You can create an Interface too with a form allowing you to upload the content and schedule it.

Then trigger the automation off an Airtable view when the post meets all the requirements of the platform(Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, etc) and a manual check as well. You can even get more precise with the timing by adding more formula fields to the table to calculate minutes if you want.

You would then have an automation send a Webhook to the n8n workflow which would then gather the information and send to the correct content platform that is chosen.

You can probably even have a filter in n8n for triggering times depending on how you want to set it up either way it is definitely possible.