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        "content": "## Daily Social Media Auto-Post\n\n**Posts every day at 6:00 AM — all ready platforms at once**\n\n**Sheet columns (exact names):**\nContent | Platform | ScheduledDate | Status | VideoURL | ImageURL | Hashtags | Title | Notes | PostID | PostedAt\n\n**Platform values:** LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok\n**ScheduledDate format:** YYYY-MM-DD\n**Status flow:** (blank) → ready → posted\n\n**Video platforms:** YouTube and TikTok require VideoURL to be a direct, publicly accessible video URL\n\n**Credentials to create in n8n:**\n- Google Sheets: Service Account (googleApi)\n- LinkedIn: no credential (token refreshed inline)\n- Instagram: HTTP Header Auth (httpHeaderAuth)\n- Twitter: Twitter OAuth2 (twitterOAuth2Api)\n- YouTube: YouTube OAuth2 API (youTubeOAuth2Api) — set up via localhost:5678 not Tailscale IP\n- TikTok: Generic OAuth2 (oAuth2Api) — see TikTok setup guide\n\n**Google Sheets nodes are pre-configured to social-media-posts / Sheet1**\nIf the credential ID doesn't match, open each Google Sheets node and reselect your credential.",
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