Every 15 minutes

Publish a content plan to Facebook and LinkedIn on schedule

Posts in your content plan go out on your Facebook Page and LinkedIn at their scheduled times, and each one is marked as done.

Runs: Every 15 minutes
Apps: Facebook Pages, LinkedIn
AI: Not needed
Access: pages_manage_posts; LinkedIn w_member_social

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, check my content plan sheet for posts that are due, publish each to my Facebook Page and LinkedIn, and record the post ids in the row.

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 recruitment agency plans a month of posts every few weeks: job highlights, candidate tips, team news. Someone then has to log in to both networks at the right time each day, and posts are often late or forgotten.

The plan now publishes itself. Each item goes out on Facebook and LinkedIn at its scheduled time, and the post ids are written back so the team can see what's live.

What you get out of it

Planned posts go out on time
No one needs to be online at 9am to press publish.
Both networks from one plan
One row covers Facebook and LinkedIn.
Progress you can see
Post ids in the plan show what's been published and what's still to come.
Plan in bulk
Spend one afternoon planning a month, then let it run.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every 15 minutes, ClickRuntime reads your content plan.
It picks items whose time has come and that haven't been published.
Each one is posted to your Facebook Page and LinkedIn.
The post ids are written into the plan, so nothing is posted twice.

Before it runs live

Connect Facebook Pages
Connect LinkedIn

What you get

RunsEvery 15 minutes

Publish a content plan to Facebook and LinkedIn on scheduletoday, 9:00Succeeded

Google Sheets · PlanMon 20 Oct 09:00 | Five interview questions to prepare for | posted on both

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 LinkedIn 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.

cross_post_a_scheduled_content_plan_to_facebook_and_linkedin.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, AUTHOR, SHEET_ID = "1234567890", "urn:li:organization:12345", "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="Plan!A2:D").execute().get("values", [])
    li_headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('linkedin', 'work')}", "LinkedIn-Version": "202409"}
    posted = 0
    for i, r in enumerate(rows):
        when, text, fb_id, li_id = (r + [""] * 4)[:4]
        if fb_id or not when or datetime.fromisoformat(when) > datetime.now():
            continue
        fb = http.post(f"https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/{PAGE_ID}/feed",
                       data={"message": text, "access_token": credentials.connection("facebook", "work")}).json()
        li = http.post("https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts", headers=li_headers,
                       json={"author": AUTHOR, "commentary": text, "visibility": "PUBLIC", "lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
                             "distribution": {"feedDistribution": "MAIN_FEED"}})
        values.update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Plan!C{i + 2}:D{i + 2}", valueInputOption="RAW",
                      body={"values": [[fb["id"], li.headers.get("x-restli-id", "")]]}).execute()
        posted += 1
    return {"posted": posted}

FAQ

Common questions

Where does the plan live?

In a Google Sheet with a date and time, the post text and an optional image link for each item.

Can a row go to only one network?

Yes. Add a column for networks and fill in facebook, linkedin or both.

What time zone are times in?

The time zone you set in the prompt, so a 9:00 post goes out at 9:00 where your audience is.

What permissions does it need?

pages_manage_posts; LinkedIn w_member_social. 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.

The moment it happens