Is it possible to use N8N Self Hosted as a social media post scheduler?

firstly I’ve done a search for this and everything returned is about AI generating both post text and image

I did not want AI at all. I can’t imagine something worse than generating AI and posting it all over my socials

I have my own text and image ready I just want it to post it on a certain date to several Social Media platforms.

firstly everything I see is providing a link to an image. it doesn’t seem there’s a way to upload a local image and for it to post that to supported social media platforms.

secondly there does not seem to be a way to schedule something to happen.

I do not want AII do not want to generate photos I do not want to generate text I do not want to generate anything I want to post what I want to say.

I just don’t want to pay another subscription on those schedulers

  • Schedule Trigger allows custom Cron jobs that let you decide when the workflow will execute
  • tmpfiles.org has a free API which allows you to upload files and retrieve a public URL for them. I made a community node for it which will be released in the next patch. Check it out

Note: I also made this Instagram node because many people -including me- struggle with Meta’s API.

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Hey @bally Yes, you can use n8n to schedule and post your own text and images to social media for free. Think of n8n as a free, self-hosted robot. You give it your text and a picture from your computer, tell it “post this to Facebook and Twitter next Tuesday at 3 PM,” and it will do exactly that. No AI, no subscriptions.

Does this answer your question?

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