Social Media Post Scheduler
Plan your social posts ahead of time in a simple Google Sheet. Every hour, this automation checks for anything due, publishes it to X (Twitter), marks it as posted so it never goes out twice, and confirms in Slack — a lightweight content calendar with zero manual publishing.
Automation flow
Hourly Check
Runs every hour to look for due posts.
Read Content Calendar
Your Google Sheets posting schedule is read.
Due This Hour
Posts marked 'Scheduled' whose time has come are picked out.
Post to X
The post text is published automatically.
Mark as Posted
The row is flagged so it's never posted twice.
Notify Team
Slack confirms every post that goes live.
How it works
Every hour, the workflow reads your content calendar, finds rows marked Scheduled whose time has arrived, posts them to X, flips their status to Posted so they're never posted twice, and pings your team in Slack.
Services used
What you'll need
- n8n (Cloud trial or self-hosted)
- Google Sheets
- X (Twitter) Developer account (free tier)
- Slack
What's included
- Plan a week of content in one sitting
- No missed or duplicate posts
- Easy to extend to LinkedIn or Bluesky
- Full posting log in your content calendar
Estimate what this could save you
3.6 hours/month
≈ $108/month in your time
A rough estimate based on what you enter above — not a guarantee. Actual time saved depends on your process.
Make it yours
- Add a second posting node (LinkedIn, Facebook Pages, Bluesky) alongside Post to X for cross-posting the same row everywhere.
- Attach an image: add an
Image URLcolumn and a Google Drive/HTTP Request node to fetch the binary before posting. - Tighten the schedule to every 15 minutes for more precise posting times.
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Structurally validated: automatically checked for valid n8n format before every deploy.
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Setup time
- ~15 min
- Integrations
- 3
- Node count
- 6
- Format
- .json + guide