Automatically Send Your Published Articles to Buffer

Create a streamlined workflow to publish your content to your social profiles.

Publish from an RSS Feed to Buffer

I publish a lot of content on the internet. Medium, Substack, and my blog — to name a few.

When I publish something, I want to share the link across my social platforms. Gotta get the most mileage out of the content, right?

The problem: I never want it to publish to my social profiles automatically, for a few reasons. I submit to a lot of publications in Medium and I have no control over when they’re published. Sometimes it’s at 3:00 a.m. Sometimes two will be published in the same day.

I want to share the links with my regular posting cadence and say something thoughtful with each post. No one likes a feed full of random links and no context. It feels like spam. 😣

I use Buffer to schedule all of my content. Using Zapier automation, I can save new published content as a Buffer Idea, to later schedule as a post.

Step 1: Create a Zap based on your RSS feed

In Zapier, you always need a “trigger” or something that starts the automation.

I use the RSS feed for each of my publications. The app to use is RSS by Zapier and the…