I want to soon transition from Buffer.com to automatically share posts from my blog to Facebook on N8N. I’m not quite getting it, to be honest, as I am fairly new to automation.
I have knowledge of how to connect the Ghost API and Facebook Graph, but I’m unsure how the workflow should look. Buffer.com has the function to share blog posts via Ghost as soon as I schedule it. I don’t need help with the entire process, but could you perhaps give me some tips on what such a workflow could look like?
I run Ghost on my own server and N8N on my own server.
I am not familiar with Ghost API but I am posting to quite a few different social platforms using n8n automations. I put this video up over the weekend. It may help you? It also contains a quick run through of one of the bigger works flows I have for generating and posting social media content.
I will do a video on my bigger flow in the next week or so as well
I have yet to tackle the challenge of scheduling when posts using n8n and the graph API go up on FB. Right now the automations post whenever the trigger fires. But adding date a time control for posting is on my to do list.
@bowtiefox start your workflow with a Webhook, and attach one to the post.published event in Ghost (see documentation here). I don’t run Ghost myself, but I imagine this event will pass the required information to n8n so you can continue processing it from there.
For a personal project I schedule social media messages by defining a ‘queue’ in a Google Sheet. My workflow runs twice a day and picks the next available item from the list.
