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Robopost's automation feature detects when you publish a new article and automatically shares it to your social media accounts. Let's explore how to use it.

Choose automation type

To create an automation task, open POSTS > Automations and click +New Automation.

Choose the automation type from RSS Feed, WordPress or Ghost. Please note that we currently only support self-hosted websites for WordPress (WordPress.com will be supported in the future).

URL to be monitored

After choosing the automation type, enter the URL to be monitored.

RSS Feed
Enter the URL to your rss page.
ex) https://robopost.app/blog/rss

WordPress
Enter the URL to your blog page.
ex) https://robopost.app/blog

Ghost
Enter the URL to your blog page.
ex) https://robopost.app/blog

Post Template

Write the text for the posts to share your articles. We provide tags to help you publish a customized post for each article:

  • {title}: The article's title, as provided by the RSS feed
  • {html_title}: The article's web page title (meta title)
  • {description}: The article's description, as advertised by the RSS feed
  • {html_description}: The article's web page description (meta description)
  • {link}: A link to the article*¹

*¹: The {link} tag is optional for Google Business Profile posts. Robopost will publish the post with a Learn more link.

You can also use our AI to write the content or generate an image based on your article.

Post To

Select where to send the posts:

  • Directly post to Channels: Publishes the post as soon as the article is published.
  • Save as a Draft: Creates a draft when a new article is detected.*²
  • Post to Collections: Adds the article to a collection when it detects a new article.

*²: When you create an automation with Post To: Save as a Draft, Robopost will fetch all the data from your RSS feed and create drafts for each article.

For Channels

Select the channels where you want to share the articles.

Create Automation

Once you've finished setting up the automation, toggle Enable and click Create Automation.

Re-Import Posts

If Post To is set to either Save as a Draft or Post to Collections, you can re-import posts from your RSS feed by clicking Actions > Re-Import Posts. Note that this may create duplicates, depending on the content in your RSS feed.