How-to guides
Practical guides for things social media APIs make hard: scheduling TikTok posts, cross-posting video, publishing Instagram carousels, automating with n8n, and more.
Schedule
Hold posts and publish at a precise time, even when the platform API does not support scheduling natively.
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How to Auto-Post YouTube Shorts via API
Auto-publish YouTube Shorts at scale with Postproxy. Title, privacy, tags, category, AI-disclosure, and how scheduling actually works.
Publish YouTube Shorts at scale with a single API call. Postproxy handles OAuth refresh, the resumable upload, and the 9:16/≤60s Shorts rules, plus title, privacy, tags, category, and AI disclosure.
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How to Auto-Publish Pinterest Pins via API
Auto-pin every new blog post or piece of content to Pinterest. Real Postproxy params: board_id, destination_link, title, cover_url.
Auto-pin every new blog post or product to Pinterest with one call — set board_id, destination_link, title, and cover image, and route pins per board. Postproxy keeps OAuth refreshed for you.
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How to Schedule & Auto-Post to Threads via API
Schedule and auto-post to Threads through Postproxy — one request handles the container/publish flow, retries, rate limits, and reply chains. Working code with Node, Python, and curl.
Schedule and auto-post to Threads through one Postproxy request — container creation, processing waits, retries, rate limits, and reply chains handled for you. Working code in Node, Python, and curl.
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How to Post to a LinkedIn Company Page via API
Posting to a LinkedIn company page requires different OAuth scopes and a different author URN than personal posts. Here's the full pattern with Postproxy.
Post to a LinkedIn company page with the organization scope and author URN handled for you. Postproxy maps the company-page OAuth flow and the urn:li:organization URN format so you skip the 403s.
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How to Schedule Instagram Reels via API
Instagram's Graph API doesn't accept future timestamps for Reels. Here's how to schedule Reels with Postproxy — container handling, processing waits, and exact-time publishing.
Schedule Instagram Reels for an exact time even though the Graph API rejects future timestamps. Postproxy handles the container, the processing wait, and fires the publish at your chosen moment.
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How to Schedule TikTok Posts via API
TikTok's Content Posting API has no native scheduling. Here's how to schedule TikTok posts with Postproxy — exact-time and queue-based, with the real request shapes.
Schedule TikTok posts for an exact time or a recurring queue even though TikTok's API only posts immediately. Postproxy holds the request and fires it on time — with the real request shapes shown.
Cross-post & repurpose
Push the same media to many platforms in one call, and adapt one source into platform-specific formats.
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How to Cross-Post a Video to Every Social Platform via API
One MP4 to TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Facebook, Pinterest, and Bluesky in a single API call. Spec table and code included.
Send one MP4 to TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Facebook, Pinterest, and Bluesky in a single API call. Postproxy handles every upload flow, aspect ratio, and status pipeline for you.
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How to Publish an Instagram Carousel via API
Instagram carousels need N child containers, one carousel container, and a publish call. Postproxy collapses it to one POST.
Publish an Instagram carousel with one POST. Postproxy creates every child container, the parent container, and the publish call for you — no orphan containers, no pending-container ceiling to manage.
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How to Repurpose YouTube Videos to Shorts, Reels, and TikTok
Turn one long-form YouTube video into vertical clips for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok. ffmpeg recipe + Postproxy publishing in one workflow.
Turn one long-form YouTube video into vertical clips for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok — an ffmpeg recipe to crop and re-encode, then Postproxy publishes to all three from one workflow.
Bulk & data sources
Drive scheduled publishing from spreadsheets, databases and CMS records.
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How to Schedule Social Media Posts from Airtable
Drive a multi-platform publishing pipeline from an Airtable base — automation script, status writeback, and review workflow.
Run a multi-platform publishing pipeline straight from an Airtable base — an automation script posts each row, writes status back, and supports a review step. Your content calendar becomes your scheduler.
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How to Schedule Social Media Posts from Google Sheets
Turn one row in a Google Sheet into one scheduled post across every platform. A step-by-step guide to wiring Google Apps Script to the Postproxy API for bulk scheduling.
Turn one row in a Google Sheet into one scheduled post across every platform. Wire Google Apps Script to the Postproxy API and plan weeks of content in a spreadsheet that publishes itself.
Automation & agents
Wire publishing into n8n, Zapier, Make, MCP servers and AI agents.
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How to Automate Social Media with OpenClaw
Install the Postproxy skill from ClawHub, configure the API key in ~/.openclaw/.env, and let OpenClaw publish to 11 platforms from chat.
Install the Postproxy skill from ClawHub, drop your API key in ~/.openclaw/.env, and OpenClaw can publish to 11 platforms straight from chat — no per-network OAuth, upload rules, or rate limits to build.
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How to Automate Social Media Posting with n8n
Use the official Postproxy n8n integration to publish to TikTok, Threads, Pinterest, and 6 more platforms from any workflow.
Use the official Postproxy n8n integration to publish to TikTok, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, and 5 more platforms from any workflow — one node, no hand-rolled OAuth or HTTP Request glue.
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How to Let AI Agents Publish to Social Media via MCP
MCP gives Claude Code, Cursor, and other LLM agents the ability to publish posts. Here's how to wire the Postproxy MCP server.
Give Claude Code, Cursor, and other LLM agents the ability to publish posts through the Postproxy MCP server. One tool boundary turns "draft a post" into "post it" across every supported platform.
Inbox & engagement
Reply to comments, send and receive DMs, and manage Google Business reviews through the same API.
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How to Set Instagram Ice Breakers via API
Manage the suggested questions Instagram shows when a user opens a new DM thread — set up to 4 ice breakers, receive taps as webhooks, and auto-respond by payload.
Set up to 4 Instagram ice breakers — the suggested questions shown when someone opens a new DM thread — receive taps as webhooks, and auto-respond by payload. Capture your highest-intent DM entry point.
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How to Track ig.me and m.me Link Referrals via API
Attribute Instagram and Messenger DM conversations to campaigns with ig.me/m.me ref parameters — referral webhooks, chat metadata, and replying before the first message.
Attribute Instagram and Messenger DM conversations to campaigns with ig.me and m.me ref parameters — capture referral webhooks, read chat metadata, and reply before the first message. Close the DM attribution gap.
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How to Let AI Agents Answer DMs and Comments via MCP
Give Claude or any MCP client the tools to read and answer Instagram DMs, moderate comments, and reply to Google reviews — engagement tools on the Postproxy MCP server.
Connect Claude or any MCP client to the Postproxy engagement tools and your AI agent can read Instagram DMs, hide or reply to comments, and respond to Google reviews directly — no copy-paste, no per-platform plumbing.
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How to Auto-Respond to Google Reviews with AI
Wire a webhook, an LLM, and one POST into a Google review auto-responder — star-rating-aware drafts, human approval for negative reviews, multi-location routing.
Build a Google review auto-responder from a webhook, an LLM, and one POST — star-rating-aware drafts, human approval for negative reviews, and multi-location routing. Lift your response rate without writing each reply by hand.
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How to Build a Unified Social Media Inbox via API
One chat and message schema across Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, Telegram, and Bluesky — list conversations, receive webhooks, and reply from a single inbox API.
List conversations, receive webhooks, and reply across Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, Telegram, and Bluesky from one inbox API with a single chat and message schema — four integrations collapsed into one.
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How to Auto-Hide & Moderate Comments via API (Instagram, Facebook, Threads)
Build automatic comment moderation — hide spam and abuse, unhide false positives, delete when needed — with one comment moderation API across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.
Hide spam and abuse, unhide false positives, and delete when needed across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads from one comment moderation API — automatic moderation that keeps up with any posting volume.
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How to Auto-Reply to Instagram Comments via API
Reply to Instagram comments programmatically — comment webhooks in, replies out, with author signals for routing. One Comments API for Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.
Reply to Instagram comments programmatically: webhooks deliver new comments, one Comments API sends replies, and author signals let you route them. Works across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.
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How to Turn Instagram Comments into DMs via API (Private Replies)
Build the "comment LINK to get the guide" flow with the private reply API — comment webhook in, DM out. Works on Instagram and Facebook, no ManyChat needed.
Build the "comment a keyword, get a DM" funnel with the Private Replies API — a comment webhook in, a DM out. Own this high-converting flow on Instagram and Facebook, no ManyChat needed.
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How to Reply to Google Business Reviews via API
List and reply to Google Business Profile reviews programmatically — multi-location filtering, star-only reviews, webhooks for new reviews, and reply management.
List and reply to Google Business Profile reviews programmatically — filter by location, handle star-only reviews, get webhooks for new reviews, and manage replies. New review in, your reply out.
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How to Send Facebook Messenger Messages via API
Send and receive Facebook Messenger messages programmatically — Page chats, PSIDs, the 24-hour window, attachments, reactions, and read receipts via the Postproxy API.
Send and receive Facebook Messenger messages programmatically — Page chats, PSIDs, the 24-hour window, attachments, reactions, and read receipts all handled through one Postproxy API.
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How to Send Instagram DMs via API
Send and receive Instagram direct messages programmatically — chats, the 24-hour messaging window, attachments, reactions, and inbound webhooks via the Postproxy API.
Send and receive Instagram DMs programmatically — chats, the 24-hour messaging window, attachments, reactions, and inbound webhooks all handled through one Postproxy API.
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