👑 What happens on a new item
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She checks the feed
While a feed is active she reads it about once an hour. The first check runs right after you turn it on.
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She looks at the newest item
She picks the item with the newest publication date and compares its link with the last link she posted for this feed. The same link means nothing new, and she goes back to sleep.
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She writes the caption
With Autogenerate content set to Yes she reads the item and writes a short caption for it. Set it to No and she uses the text you wrote in the form for every item.
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She adds a picture, if you asked for one
With Generate Picture? set to Yes she generates an image from the item and attaches it to the post.
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She creates the draft
The post is the caption, a blank line, then the link to the item. It goes to the channels you picked, at the next open slot in your posting schedule, as a draft badged Auto-posted by system. Links in an AutoPost draft are left as they are rather than shortened.
Add a feed
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Open Settings, then Auto Post
In app.postqueen.ai open Settings and pick the Auto Post tab. It deep links as
/settings?tab=autopost.2
Click Add an autopost
A form opens in a modal. Existing feeds sit above it in a list with Edit, Delete and an Active toggle.
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Fill in the form
Give it a title, paste the feed URL, and pick the channels she posts to.
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Hit Send Test
She fetches the feed and tells you whether she can read it. A feed she cannot parse shows a warning, and the Save button only appears once the test passes.
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Save
The feed joins the list and starts checking straight away if you left it active.
Fields
Caption writing and picture generation call OpenAI. On a self-hosted install, set
OPENAI_API_KEY in your environment before turning those on. With Autogenerate content set to No and Generate Picture? set to No, AutoPost runs without any AI key.How often she checks
Each active feed runs its own hourly loop. Turning a feed on starts a check immediately, then she waits an hour and checks again, for as long as the feed stays active. One check takes one item: the newest one. If four posts go live in the same hour, she takes the newest, records it as the last item she posted, and the other three stay in the feed without drafts of their own. For a feed that publishes in bursts, that is worth knowing before you switch it on.Control tips
Pause a feed without losing its setup
Pause a feed without losing its setup
Flip the Active toggle off in the feed list. The hourly loop stops and the feed keeps its settings. Turning it back on starts the loop again with a check right away, so an item that arrived while it was paused can still go out if it is the newest one.
Skip the backlog when you add a feed
Skip the backlog when you add a feed
Answer No to Should we sync the current last post?. She marks the item at the top of the feed as seen, and your calendar stays clear of anything you already published.
Keep the channel list current
Keep the channel list current
If you picked Specific integrations and those channels are later removed, there is nothing left for her to post to and the feed quietly skips its turn. Open the feed with Edit and pick the channels again after any reconnect.
Review the drafts
Review the drafts
Drafts sit on your calendar at the slot she chose. Open one, adjust the wording, and schedule or publish it. A draft that you leave alone stays a draft.
Write your own caption when the feed is repetitive
Write your own caption when the feed is repetitive
For release notes or a changelog feed, set Autogenerate content to No and write one line in Post content. Every item then goes out with that line plus its own link.
Next steps
AutoPost is deliberately simple: one feed, one caption style, one draft per check. If you want AI captions from your own model or prompt, or custom routing that sends each item to a different channel, use the n8n RSS workflow instead. It can also pick up several items in one run and filter them by category first.RSS to PostQueen in n8n
An RSS trigger, your own caption step, then Create Post.