In this tutorial, we’ll use Integrations directory to build a social media bot that will let us post to platforms from directly within Airtable, and automatically generates images for our post.

1. Setting up our base

For this tutorial, you can copy the Airtable base with sample data here.

Let’s take a look at our base first. We have a list of social media posts with the headline, company name, link and post content and we’ll want to fill out the image, image URL, and this posted checkbox.

Fields Type Definition
Headline Text Headline text for the autogenerated image
Company Name Text Name of the company that’s the source of the link
Link URL Article link
Post Content Long Text Social media text that will get shared on Linkedin and Twitter
Image Image Image file for the social media content that will be generated by Placid
Image URL URL Image URL that will be generated by Placid
Post to social media Button Post to social media button that will generated our content and post to twitter and Linked
Posted Checkbox If our script successfully posts to social media it will also check this box

With our social media content filled out, up next is enriching the rest of the fields and a few more steps.

  1. Fill out the rest of our database with the autogenerated images, and image urls from integrations.directory
  2. Post our content to social media when we trigger the post
  3. Set our record to posted once the operation is complete

2. Finding an integration to create marketing images

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With our goals in mind, let’s head over to integrations.directory so we can look for our first integration.

First up we’ll go to browse the directory and we can try to search “generate images”. Integrations directory search is flexible, each entry has SEO keywords to help you most easily find a solution for your query.

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