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Auto-Generate Instagram Carousels with GPT-Image-1 & AI Captions from Google Sheets

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Created by: Jorge Martínez || jorgemartinezjam

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🧰 Instagram Carousel Scheduler

A tool to automatically publish Instagram carousels using a Post Description, Instructions, and the number of images you want to post — all directly from a Google Sheet.
At the end of each post, the next row is marked as Pending, allowing fully automated posting, so you can prepare months of content in advance.

✅ Requirements

  • 📱 Instagram Business Account
    Required to publish content via the Meta Graph API.
    Make sure your IG account is connected to a Facebook Page.

  • 🔐 Facebook Developers Token
    Required to use the Graph API and publish on Instagram.
    👉 It's highly recommended to create a System User so your token never expires.

  • ☁️ Cloudinary Upload Preset
    Used to upload generated images and retrieve public URLs.
    👉 Use an unsigned upload preset (no API key required).

  • 🧠 OpenAI API Key
    Used for:

    • Generating a caption from the post description.
    • Creating image prompts.
    • Generating images using gpt-image-1.
      ⚠️ You might need to verify your business with OpenAI to access this model.
  • 📊 Google Sheets App with OAuth credentials
    To fetch your content and instructions from the spreadsheet.


💬 Notes and Customization

  • ✏️ You can customize the prompt to change the visual style of the images.
    Examples:

    • Gumball style
    • Comic-style illustration
    • Digital painting
  • 🔄 You can replace Google Sheets with tools like:

    • Airtable
    • Notion
    • Your own database
  • 🔐 If Facebook requires a Privacy Policy, you can quickly create one here:
    👉 https://www.privacypolicygenerator.info