automate social media with airtable and zapier

#AUTOMATE SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AIRTABLE AND ZAPIER FREE#

We’ll place this element in the bottom left corner of the template, so:Įnable the Bottom pin and set it to 50px. We can set the text of this element to something like “Author Name”. The font should have defaulted to the last used, Oswald. Change the Maximum Font Size to be 100 and the Horizontal Alignment to Left.Īdd a new Text element for the author. We can leave the text as the default Lorem Ipsum for now. What we’re going to do with the quote Text element is pin it to the sides of the template so that it’s responsive when we changed resolution, although in this tutorial we’re just publishing to Instagram Stories which is one size. We’ll also just make the API name of this element text instead of text1. Change the font to Oswald, which by default is in your Library.

Now let’s add a Text element for the text of the quote itself. The background of the template is white currently so let’s change that to #F4B548 - a sort of yellow orange. This is the same resolution as an Instagram Story post. Open the Previewer panel and change the default resolution to 1080x1920. So in Switchboard Canvas, make a new template and called it quotes. The text elements will be placeholders for the actual quote text and author that Zapier will supply later. We’ll make a basic template with the elements we need and an image to make it slightly prettier. Now that the quotes are in Airtable, we can design our template with Switchboard Canvas. Jordan Petersonĭesigning the template in Switchboard Canvas Ernest Hemingwayĭon't compare yourself with other people compare yourself with who you were yesterday. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. It always seems impossible until it's done. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day.

I’m just using the Free plan, with a single table with two fields: Quote and Author.įor now, let’s just add one of these quotes to the table, and remove any empty rows that might exist. We’ll start with adding some quotes to Airtable. Each image will then be sent to a collection in SkedSocial. The goal of this tutorial is to add a number of quotes to an Airtable sheet, and use Zapier to pull each quote and generate an image from them using Switchboard Canvas. Zapier is a platform for connecting tools and creating automation pipelines. Switchboard Canvas is a an API-driven image generation tool where images, once created in the template designer, can be modified using an API. It is one of the few platforms that can post to Instagram Stories as well as your grid. SkedSocial is a social media publishing platform that specializes in distributing to Instagram. This guide recreates a content automation pipeline using Zapier, in turn connecting Airtable, Switchboard Canvas and SkedSocial.Īirtable is known as a spreadsheet-database hybrid where you can store data of any kind and manage it through various views.

#AUTOMATE SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AIRTABLE AND ZAPIER FREE#

Automate social media with airtable and zapier