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Every 15 minutes

Post your content calendar to Facebook and X on schedule

Posts you plan in a sheet go out on your Facebook Page and X at their scheduled time, and the sheet shows what's been posted.

Runs
Every 15 minutes
Apps
Facebook Pages, X
AI
Not needed
Access
pages_manage_posts; tweet.write

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, read my content calendar sheet, publish any due posts to my Facebook Page and X, and mark each row as posted.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A café plans its weekly specials and event posts in a shared sheet on Sunday. During the week the staff are busy serving, so posts go out late or not at all.

The sheet now publishes the posts itself. Each row goes out on Facebook and X at its time, and is marked as posted so everyone knows it's done.

What you get out of it

  • Specials announced on time

    Posts go out when customers are deciding where to eat, not after the rush.

  • Plan on Sunday, relax all week

    One planning session covers the week.

  • Shared view for the team

    Anyone can see what's scheduled and what's gone out.

  • Both networks from one row

    No need to post twice.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every 15 minutes, ClickRuntime reads your content calendar sheet.

  2. It picks rows whose time has passed and that aren't marked as posted.

  3. Each one is posted to your Facebook Page and X, trimmed to fit on X if needed.

  4. The row is marked as posted, so it's never published twice.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Facebook Pages
  • Connect X

What you get

RunsEvery 15 minutes
Post your content calendar to Facebook and X on scheduletoday, 9:00Succeeded
Google Sheets · CalendarWed 22 Oct 11:30 | Pumpkin soup is back on the lunch menu 🎃 | posted

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • 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

  • Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
  • 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 X steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
content_calendar_posted_on_schedule.pyexample
from datetime import datetime
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http

PAGE_ID, SHEET_ID = "1234567890", "your-spreadsheet-id"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    values = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()
    rows = values.get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Calendar!A2:C").execute().get("values", [])
    posted = 0
    for i, r in enumerate(rows):
        when, text, status = (r + [""] * 3)[:3]
        if status or not when or datetime.fromisoformat(when) > datetime.now():
            continue
        http.post(f"https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/{PAGE_ID}/feed",
                  data={"message": text, "access_token": credentials.connection("facebook", "work")})
        short = text if len(text) <= 280 else text[:277] + "..."
        http.post("https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets", json={"text": short},
                  headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('x', 'work')}"})
        values.update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Calendar!C{i + 2}", valueInputOption="RAW",
                      body={"values": [["posted"]]}).execute()
        posted += 1
    return {"posted": posted}

FAQ

Common questions

What columns does the sheet need?
A date and time, the post text, an optional image link and a status column.
What if the text is too long for X?
The X version is trimmed to fit with an ellipsis, while Facebook gets the full text.
Can I change a post after scheduling?
Yes. Edit the row any time before its time comes, and the new text is what's posted.
What permissions does it need?
pages_manage_posts; tweet.write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (every 15 minutes). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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