AI-Powered Social Media Content Ideation with Gemini & Google Sheets
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Automate your social media content strategy by leveraging AI. This n8n workflow fetches post ideas from a Google Sheet, then uses Google Gemini to generate unique, platform-optimized single-image content concepts for Instagram and LinkedIn, drastically speeding up your ideation process.
About This Workflow
Tired of content blocks and manual ideation? This powerful n8n workflow revolutionizes how marketing teams generate social media content. It starts by pulling your pre-planned post topics from a Google Sheet, intelligently filtering for new ideas with a 'Status' column. Then, it taps into the creative power of Google Gemini, acting as an expert social media strategist, to generate compelling, platform-specific single-image content concepts for Instagram and LinkedIn. By automating this crucial ideation phase, you ensure a consistent flow of fresh ideas, saving countless hours and fostering creativity, all while maintaining brand voice and target audience focus.
Key Features
- Automated Content Idea Retrieval: Automatically fetches new post topics from a designated Google Sheet on a schedule, filtering for un-processed ideas.
- AI-Powered Concept Generation (Gemini): Leverages Google Gemini to create unique, imaginative, and engaging content concepts based on your inputs.
- Platform-Specific Optimization: Explicitly tailors content ideas and angles for single-image posts, optimizing for either Instagram or LinkedIn.
- Customizable Brand & Audience Inputs: Dynamically uses your defined topic, target audience, brand voice, and target platform for highly relevant outputs.
- Structured Output Parsing: Ensures Gemini's creative output is consistently formatted as structured JSON for reliable use in subsequent workflow steps.
How To Use
- Google Sheets Node:
- Connect your Google Sheets account using OAuth2 credentials.
- Specify your spreadsheet (e.g., "Medium Post Automation") and the sheet (e.g., "Postİ") containing your content ideas.
- Ensure a 'Status' column exists; the workflow is set to filter for '0' to pick up new, unprocessed ideas.
- Set Node:
- Map the incoming columns from your Google Sheet (e.g.,
Topic,Audience,Voice,Platform) to the corresponding workflow variables used by the AI nodes.
- Map the incoming columns from your Google Sheet (e.g.,
- LLM Chain Nodes (Gemini):
- Connect your Google Gemini API credentials to the
(LLM Model for Concept)node. - The prompt in "3a. Generate Content Concept (Gemini)" is pre-configured as an expert social media strategist; review if needed, but typically no changes are required.
- The "(Parse Concept JSON)" node is already set up to correctly parse Gemini's structured output.
- Connect your Google Gemini API credentials to the
- Schedule Trigger:
- Configure the "Scheduled Start: Check for New Posts" node to run at your desired interval (e.g., daily, hourly) to automatically check for and process new post ideas.
- Expand Workflow (Optional):
- The workflow is set up to generate a creative concept and likely an image prompt (
3b. Generate Image Prompt Options). You can further extend this workflow to integrate with image generation services (e.g., DALL-E, Midjourney) and even direct posting to social media platforms.
- The workflow is set up to generate a creative concept and likely an image prompt (
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"name": "AI-Powered Social Media Content Ideation with Gemini & Google Sheets",
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"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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