--- title: "How to Schedule Social Media Posts with ChatGPT | Ravenpost" description: "ChatGPT cannot publish to social media on its own. Here are the three honest routes — a connector that posts directly, drafting and pasting, or the REST API — and what each one costs." url: https://ravenpo.st/chatgpt/ --- ChatGPT # How to schedule social media posts with ChatGPT ChatGPT writes a good caption and then hands it back to you. It has no connection to your Instagram, and asking it to "post this" gets you an apology. There are three real ways to close that gap, and they differ a lot in effort — the first one is the only one where ChatGPT actually publishes. [Start free](https://ravenpo.st/sign-up) [Route 1: connect it to a scheduler (the one that actually posts)](#setup) ## ChatGPT cannot post to social media by itself No prompt changes this, and any page that implies otherwise is selling something. ChatGPT has no credentials for your accounts and no publishing rights on any network. What it can do is call a tool that holds those credentials — which is what a connector is, and what Ravenpost exposes. ## Route 1: connect it to a scheduler (the one that actually posts) 1. ### Connect your accounts to Ravenpost One browser sign-in per network, once. The free plan covers a connected account and ten posts a month with no card, which is enough to see whether the workflow suits you. 2. ### Add the MCP server as a connector in ChatGPT In ChatGPT's settings, add a custom connector and give it the Ravenpost MCP URL. Custom connectors are a paid-tier feature on OpenAI's side and where they live in the settings has moved more than once — follow whatever ChatGPT's own connector documentation says today, then come back to this URL. MCP server URL ``` https://api.ravenpo.st/mcp ``` 3. ### Sign in when it asks The connector runs an OAuth sign-in and comes back holding its own credential, so there is no API key to paste. If a client refuses to run the browser flow, a personal access token can ride in the URL instead — treat that URL as the password it is. 4. ### Ask it to publish From then on "schedule this for Tuesday on LinkedIn and X" is a thing ChatGPT can do rather than describe. It lists your accounts, uploads the media and creates the post. ## What to ask ChatGPT Written the way somebody would actually type them, with what each one ends up doing. - “List my connected social accounts and what each one accepts.” Confirms the connector works and shows ChatGPT the caption budgets and media rules it has to write inside. - “Turn this blog post into a LinkedIn post and an X thread, then show me both before posting.” Writes to two very different budgets — 3,000 characters against 280 — and renders each as its network will, so you approve the post rather than a description of it. - “Schedule the LinkedIn one for tomorrow 9am and save the thread as a draft.” One call, two outcomes, each destination tracked separately. - “How did last week’s posts do?” Reads followers per account and the engagement recorded against recent posts — including posts already on the account before you connected it. ## What it still cannot do The things you would otherwise find out on day two. - Custom connectors are not on every ChatGPT plan, and OpenAI has moved where they live in the settings more than once. If you cannot find the setting, that is the constraint — not the server. - ChatGPT will not generate a video for you to post, and the images it does generate still have to be saved and handed over. The connector schedules media; it does not invent it. - Route 2 — draft in ChatGPT, paste into the calendar — needs no connector, no paid tier and no setup. For one post a week it is genuinely the right answer, and it is worth saying so. - Route 3 is the REST API, for anything running on a schedule of its own. It is included on every plan, has an OpenAPI document, and is the route to take when the thing publishing is your code rather than a chat. ## Everywhere it can publish One post, any combination of 9 networks, each with its own caption and its own preview. - [Instagram](https://ravenpo.st/channels/instagram/) - [TikTok](https://ravenpo.st/channels/tiktok/) - [X](https://ravenpo.st/channels/twitter/) - [Telegram](https://ravenpo.st/channels/telegram/) - [LinkedIn](https://ravenpo.st/channels/linkedin/) - [Threads](https://ravenpo.st/channels/threads/) - [Bluesky](https://ravenpo.st/channels/bluesky/) - [YouTube](https://ravenpo.st/channels/youtube/) - [Pinterest](https://ravenpo.st/channels/pinterest/) ## Scale your social presence for half the price Every paid tier is roughly half its Postiz equivalent. Cancel anytime. MonthlyYearly2 mo free ### Free Try it out with one account. $0/mo Free forever - 1 social account - 10 posts / month - Every platform we support - Calendar, posting queue & media library - Analytics for Instagram, TikTok, X & Facebook - MCP server for Claude & other AI assistants - 1 seat [Start free](https://ravenpo.st/sign-up) 1 seat ### Starter For solo creators getting consistent. $14/mo vs Postiz $29/mo - 5 social accounts - Unlimited posts - Everything in Free - 1 seat [Get Starter](https://ravenpo.st/sign-up) 1 seat Most popular ### Growth For creators and brands running several accounts. $24/mo vs Postiz $49/mo - 15 social accounts - Unlimited posts - Everything in Starter - Email support - 3 team seats [Get Growth](https://ravenpo.st/sign-up) 3 seats ### Agency For power users running a large account portfolio. $49/mo vs Postiz $99/mo - 50 social accounts - Unlimited posts - Everything in Growth - Priority support - Unlimited team seats [Get Agency](https://ravenpo.st/sign-up) Unlimited seats ## ChatGPT questions Can ChatGPT post to Instagram directly? Not on its own — it holds no credentials for your accounts. With a connector it can, because the connector holds them and publishes through Instagram’s official API on ChatGPT’s behalf. Does this need a paid ChatGPT plan? Custom connectors are a paid-tier feature on OpenAI’s side, and which tiers have them has changed over time. Check ChatGPT’s own connector documentation — nothing about it is set by us. Does it need a paid Ravenpost plan? No. The MCP server and the REST API are on every plan, free included — the free plan covers one connected account and ten posts a month. What if I just want to draft in ChatGPT and post by hand? That works fine and needs nothing set up: write the captions, paste them into the Ravenpost composer, and it still gives you the per-network previews, the scheduling and the queue. The connector is for when the pasting is the annoying part. Is there an API instead? Yes — a REST API on the same surface as the MCP server, included on every plan, with an OpenAPI document. Use it when the thing doing the posting is a script or a workflow rather than a conversation. Which networks are supported? Instagram, TikTok, X, Telegram, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, YouTube and Pinterest. ## Using something else? [ ### Claude Claude connector ](https://ravenpo.st/claude/)[ ### Claude Code Claude Code ](https://ravenpo.st/claude-code/)[ ### Any other agent → Cursor, Windsurf, n8n or something you wrote: the MCP server and the REST API, and what each one gives an agent. ](https://ravenpo.st/agents/) ## Give ChatGPT somewhere to post One connected account and ten posts a month, free forever. No card. [Start free](https://ravenpo.st/sign-up)