The moment it happens
Approve submitted posts before they go to Facebook and LinkedIn
Content your team sends in is held for your approval, and only what you approve is posted to Facebook and LinkedIn.
- Runs
- The moment it happens
- Apps
- Facebook Pages, LinkedIn
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
- pages_manage_posts; LinkedIn w_member_social
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: when someone submits a post to my content bot, store it and send me Approve and Reject buttons. Post approved items to my Facebook Page and LinkedIn.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
A school's staff want to share good news on social media, but the head of communications needs to check every post first. Submissions arrive by email, WhatsApp and in the corridor, and approved posts still need to be published by hand.
Staff now send posts to one place. The communications lead gets each one with Approve and Reject buttons, and approved posts go to Facebook and LinkedIn straight away.
What you get out of it
Anyone can contribute
Staff share news easily, which keeps your channels lively.
Nothing goes out unchecked
Every post waits for your approval.
Approve in one tap
No copying text into two networks after approving.
Rejected posts disappear quietly
Nothing rejected is published or kept in a queue.
How it works
What happens, step by step
A team member submits a post, which is stored as waiting for approval.
You get a message with the post and Approve and Reject buttons.
When you tap Approve, it's posted to your Facebook Page and LinkedIn.
Each submission is handled once, and rejected ones are discarded.
Before it runs live
- Connect Facebook Pages
- Connect LinkedIn
- Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
- Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Facebook Pages and LinkedIn steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, http, state
PAGE_ID, AUTHOR, CHAT = "1234567890", "urn:li:organization:12345", "123456789"
@on_event
def handle(event):
body = event.json or {}
token = credentials.secret("TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN")
if "callback_query" in body:
action, item_id = body["callback_query"]["data"].split(":")
item = state.get(f"item:{item_id}")
if action == "approve" and item:
http.post(f"https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/{PAGE_ID}/feed",
data={"message": item, "access_token": credentials.connection("facebook", "work")})
http.post("https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('linkedin', 'work')}", "LinkedIn-Version": "202409"},
json={"author": AUTHOR, "commentary": item, "visibility": "PUBLIC", "lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
"distribution": {"feedDistribution": "MAIN_FEED"}})
state.delete(f"item:{item_id}")
return {"action": action}
text = body.get("message", {}).get("text", "")
state.set(f"item:{event.event_id}", text)
buttons = [[{"text": "Approve", "callback_data": f"approve:{event.event_id}"}, {"text": "Reject", "callback_data": f"reject:{event.event_id}"}]]
http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/sendMessage",
json={"chat_id": CHAT, "text": f"New submission:\n{text}", "reply_markup": {"inline_keyboard": buttons}})
return {"stored": event.event_id}FAQ
Common questions
How do people submit posts?
Where do the approval buttons appear?
Can I edit a post before approving?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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