Zapier allows you to connect Typefully with thousands of apps and services to create powerful workflows. You'll create a Zap which is made up of a Trigger - where your information comes from - and causes one or more Actions - where your data gets sent - to happen in other apps.
Some common Zaps involving Typefully are sending a new message to Slack anytime you publish or schedule a draft, or uploading a series of new drafts using Google Sheets.
Of course, there are thousands of ways to use this super powerful tool - and they now even have a handy AI Copilot to help you along the way.
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Connect Typefully to Zapier
The first thing you'll need to do is open a free Zapier account.
Once you’re registered, open the “Zap editor” to get started.
Search “Typefully” in the app event field, and select it to get started. Zapier will prompt you to connect Typefully to it for the first time.
It will ask you for an API Key that you can create in your Typefully settings:
Choose a trigger, or “app event”
You can trigger actions from Zapier when:
A draft is published from Typefully
A draft is scheduled from Typefully.
As an example, this allows you to get a notification via Slack/email when a tweet/thread is published, or to cross-post to other platforms. The triggers also contain the draft content and other useful metadata, including the Twitter link to the published tweet/thread.
In the Zapier trigger settings, you can decide to filter if you want the Zap to run for all drafts, just for tweets or threads.
Bear in mind that these triggers update every 15 minutes, so don’t be surprised if they don’t trigger immediately after performing an action.
Actions
Actions allow you to create and schedule content in Typefully.
As an example, you can create a new draft when a new document is moved/created in a folder on Google Docs. This allows you to integrate Typefully into your existing writing and review workflows, a feature especially useful for teams.
We offer three actions:
Create Draft. It creates a draft with the provided content that you will find in Typefully ready for editing.
Schedule Draft. It will schedule a draft with the provided content for publishing on the date you provide.
Schedule Draft in Next Free Slot. It will add a draft with the provided content to the queue to be published in your next free slot.
All these actions expose at least these 3 options:
Content
It’s the content that will be put in the draft. Separate with at least 4 new lines to split into multiple tweets.
Auto-split
If enabled, will split the content into multiple tweets automatically. Especially useful if you pipe blog posts to Typefully. It will also remove any markdown found in the text.
Share
If enabled, it will automatically create an internal share link for the draft (provided in the output of the Zapier action as
share_url), that you can use in other actions to circulate your draft.