📱 Generate Instagram posts with AI quotes & images using GPT & Gemini

⚡ 1,839 views · 📱 Social Media & Email Marketing

💡 Pro Tip — Heads up — if this workflow’s Instagram scraping breaks (it happens whenever Meta updates their frontend), ScraperNode is a community node that handles profiles, posts, reels, and comments without any HTML parsing.

Description

📸 Instagram Post Automation Workflow

ℹ️ What is this workflow

This workflow automatically produces daily Instagram posts based on a user-provided prompt and sends them to your email inbox.
Social media creators can use it to generate content periodically and save time.

The email includes:

• Picture
• Title
• Caption
• Relevant hashtags

You can simply copy and paste the content from the email into Instagram, or go further by connecting it to the Facebook API for full automation.

💼 Business Cases

• Generating social media posts primarily for Instagram.
• Integrating with other workflows (trend research, market studies, news feeds) to produce images, statistics, text, or data comparisons for social media.

💰 Business Value

If you produce daily posts and each Instagram post takes around 1 hour to find a quote, create an image, caption, and hashtags, this workflow does it in less than 1 minute.

This saves you:

• Weekly: 7 hours (1 hour × 7 days)
• Monthly: 30 hours (1 hour × 30 days)
• Yearly: 360 hours (12 months × 30 hours) At a cost of $20/hour, this workflow saves: $7,200 annually (360 hours × $20).

In total, you’re saving 360 hours + $7,200 per year, allowing you to focus on other valuable activities.

⚙️ How Does It Work

1. The workflow runs periodically according to your schedule settings.
2. Generates a new quote, avoiding duplicates of previously created ones.
3. Creates an image.
4. Sends all content by email.

🔗 Integrated Services

• Local file storage on the hosted platform
• OpenAI GPT model (customizable to any AI model you prefer)
• Gemini model for image generation (replaceable with your preferred tool)
• Email sending via SMTP

🛠 How to Set Up

1. Install the workflow template.
2. Configure AI models and set up SMTP credentials.
3. Create a file on your local installation (/home/node/instagram_posts.txt).
4. Set up the scheduler.
5. Test and enjoy.

🔗 Nodes Used

Send Email, Schedule Trigger, Basic LLM Chain, OpenAI Chat Model, Read/Write Files from Disk, Convert to File

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup