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title: "Introduction to Automations"
description: "Automatically create, schedule, or publish social media posts when new content appears in your feeds."
canonical_url: "https://help.postpone.app/scheduling/automation/introduction"
---
# Introduction to Automations

> Automatically create, schedule, or publish social media posts when new content appears in your feeds.

Automations let you automatically create social media posts whenever new content appears in a feed. Instead of manually creating a post every time you publish a blog article, release a podcast episode, or upload a YouTube video, Postpone watches your feeds and handles it for you.

## How Automations Work

Every automation has two parts:

1. **Trigger** — the event that starts the automation. Currently, the supported trigger is **New Feed Item**: when a new item appears in a connected feed.
2. **Actions** — what happens when the trigger fires. Each action creates a post on one of your connected social accounts.

You can add multiple actions to a single automation. For example, one automation could draft a post on X/Twitter, schedule a post on LinkedIn, and immediately publish to Bluesky — all from a single blog post in your RSS feed.

![Automation editor](https://help.postpone.app/img/automation-editor.png)

## Supported Platforms

Automations can create posts on these platforms:

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 X/Twitter
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 LinkedIn
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 Bluesky
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 Threads
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 Mastodon
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 Telegram
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 Facebook
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 Reddit

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and Tumblr are not currently supported for automations.

## Creating an Automation

1. Go to the **Automations** page.
2. Click **Create Automation**.
3. In the **When** section, select an existing feed or create a new one. This is the trigger — your automation will run whenever a new item appears in this feed.
4. In the **Then** section, click **Add an Action** and choose what should happen: draft a post, schedule it, or submit it immediately.
5. Configure each action by selecting a social account, writing a post template with [template variables](https://help.postpone.app/scheduling/automation/template-variables), and (for scheduled posts) setting a scheduling expression.
6. Click **Create Automation** to save.

![Automation action editor](https://help.postpone.app/img/automation-action-editor.png)

## Action Types

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<thead>
  <tr>
    <th>
      Action
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Description
    </th>
  </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <strong>
        Draft a Post
      </strong>
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Creates a draft for you to review before publishing.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      <strong>
        Schedule a Post
      </strong>
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Queues the post for a future time (e.g., "Tomorrow 9am").
    </td>
  </tr>
  
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        Submit a Post
      </strong>
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Publishes the post immediately when the trigger fires.
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

See [Actions](https://help.postpone.app/scheduling/automation/actions) for details on each action type.

## Managing Automations

From the Automations page you can:

- **Enable or disable** an automation without deleting it.
- **Edit** an automation to change the feed, actions, or templates.
- **View run history** to see when the automation has triggered and whether posts were created successfully.
- **Delete** an automation you no longer need.

## Learn More

<card-group>
<card icon="i-lucide-rss" title="Triggers" to="https://help.postpone.app/scheduling/automation/triggers">

Learn about the triggers that start automations, including 15+ supported feed sources.

</card>

<card icon="i-lucide-play" title="Actions" to="https://help.postpone.app/scheduling/automation/actions">

Learn about the three action types and how to configure them.

</card>

<card icon="i-lucide-braces" title="Template Variables" to="https://help.postpone.app/scheduling/automation/template-variables">

Customize your post templates with dynamic content from feed items.

</card>

<card icon="i-lucide-history" title="Run History" to="https://help.postpone.app/scheduling/automation/run-history">

Track automation runs and diagnose issues.

</card>

<card icon="i-lucide-bot" title="Agents & MCP" to="https://help.postpone.app/ai/agents-and-mcp/introduction">

Connect Postpone to AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to create and schedule posts in natural language.

</card>
</card-group>


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