Automate Video Content Posting to Multiple Social Platforms with Postiz

This workflow contains community nodes that are only compatible with the self-hosted version of n8n.

This workflow automates the distribution and scheduling of video content across multiple social platforms (TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Threads) through Postiz. Videos are collected from Google Drive, approved manually through a Gmail form, and scheduled via the Postiz community node.

🧾 Requirements

• Google Drive account with access to the folder that will watch for new items uploaded.
• Postiz account with integrations for TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
• Gmail account with credentials enabled
• (Optional) OpenAI API key if using AI-powered datetime extraction
• n8n cloud or self-hosted instance

🔗 Useful Links

• Postiz Docs
• Postiz Community Node

🔄 Workflow Steps

1. Trigger: Google Drive File Added

   • Watches your selected Google Drive folder for new file uploads.

2. Download File

   • Downloads the detected video from Drive.

3. Upload to Postiz

   • Video is uploaded to Postiz to prepare for social scheduling.

4. Set Fields

   • Manual setting of social options

5. Extract Datetime (AI)

   • Uses OpenAI to find/predict intended publish date & time, as the datetime format is required to schedule on Postiz

6. Get Social Integrations

   • Fetches a list of user’s connected platforms from Postiz.

7. Split and Filter Integrations

   • Splits the process per platform (TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Threads).

8. Schedule Post

   • For each enabled platform, schedules the video with chosen options.

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