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Simple social: Instagram single image post with Facebook API

Started by an event in a connected app, and works across Email. 12 steps, 2 branches: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

12 stepsMedium: a working afternoon
2Branches: places the flow splits
0Loops or waits
1Service it connects to

The flow

Starts it 1Logic 3Service 8

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

  1. 1When clicking ‘Test workflow’Manual triggerStarts it
  2. 2Node just for retrive id of instagram pageFacebook Graph ApiService
  3. 3Instagram paramsSetLogic
  4. 4Instagram prepare mediaFacebook Graph ApiService
  5. 5Instagram check status of media uploaded beforeFacebook Graph ApiService
  6. 6If media status is finishedIfLogic
  7. 7Instagram publish mediaFacebook Graph ApiService
  8. 8Send EmailEmail SendService
  9. 9Instagram check status of media published beforeFacebook Graph ApiService
  10. 10If media status is finished1IfLogic
  11. 11Send Email1Email SendService
  12. 12Send Email2Email SendService

How it's built

Starts on
An event in a connected app
Steps
12, with 2 branches
Size
Medium: a working afternoon
Connects to
Email
Model
None. This is plumbing, not judgement

Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Email account. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on an event in a connected app.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 12 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

Before you run it

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 12 steps before you point it at anything that matters.