Connect a blog, podcast, newsletter, or YouTube channel and Aidelly auto-drafts or auto-publishes new items to social with platform-tuned AI captions.

Renamed from RSS Auto-Post. As of PR #834, Aidelly's auto-post engine handles four source types: RSS, podcasts, newsletters, and YouTube. Old /docs/app/rss-auto-post links 301-redirect here.

What auto-post is for

You publish a blog post on Monday and remember to share it on Wednesday — maybe — to one platform, with a caption you wrote in 30 seconds. Auto-post fixes this. Connect your source once and every new item (article, podcast episode, newsletter, YouTube upload) surfaces in Aidelly within 15 minutes, with platform-tuned AI captions ready to review or publish automatically.

Four source types

Type	Examples	What gets syndicated
RSS / Atom	WordPress, Ghost, Notion, Medium, custom CMS	New articles
Podcast	Any podcast RSS feed	New episodes with episode metadata
Newsletter	Beehiiv, Substack, generic newsletter RSS	New issues with newsletter-specific cleanup
YouTube	A channel handle (`@channel`) or URL	New uploads (Aidelly resolves the upload feed)

All four use the same engine: 15-min poll, AI caption per platform, three publish modes, smart dedup, auto-pause on errors.

Plan limits

Plan	Connected sources
Launch	Not included
Scale	3 sources
Agency	Unlimited

How to access

Open the sidebar.
Click Automations → Auto-Post (/automation/auto-post).

Step 1 — Connect a source

Click Connect source.
Pick a source type: RSS, Podcast, Newsletter, or YouTube.
Paste the feed URL or channel handle:
- RSS: WordPress /feed/, Substack /feed, Ghost /rss/, etc.
- Podcast: the public podcast RSS URL (find it on the podcast's RSS page).
- Newsletter: Beehiiv /feed, Substack /feed, or any newsletter with a public feed.
- YouTube: paste @channelhandle or the channel URL — Aidelly resolves the upload feed.
Aidelly fetches the source once and shows a preview of the latest 5 items so you can confirm.
Click Connect.

First-connect backfill is capped at 24 hours of source history so you don't dump an entire archive into your scheduler. After that, only new items.

Step 2 — Pick a publish mode

Three modes per source:

Mode	What happens for each new item
Auto-draft only	Item becomes a draft in your calendar for review
Approval batch	Item joins a batch; one click approves all at once
Auto-publish	Item publishes immediately to the platforms you selected

Auto-publish is powerful but risky — only use it for sources you fully trust (your own blog / podcast with consistent quality).

Step 3 — Pick target platforms per source

Each source has its own platform selection:

All platforms — fans out to every connected social account
Selected — pick specific accounts (e.g. tech blog → LinkedIn + X only)
Skip platforms — explicitly exclude any (e.g. never auto-post a podcast to TikTok)

You can also vary captions by platform: LinkedIn full-text + X hook + Instagram skip.

Step 4 — Tune the AI captions

For each new item, Aidelly drafts a platform-tuned caption automatically:

LinkedIn: long-form, opinion-led, ends with a question
X / Twitter: hook-first, fits the character limit
Instagram: hashtag-heavy, line-broken for readability
Facebook: conversational, link-friendly
Threads: short, native-feeling
Mastodon: respectful of CW / visibility defaults

Source-specific behavior:

Podcast captions get episode title + duration + episode number when available.
YouTube captions get the video title, description excerpt, and link with UTM.
Newsletter captions strip subscriber-only sections and link to the public archive URL.

The agent uses your Brand Memory so captions sound like you. Edit per-item before publish if you want.

Step 5 — Schedule timing

Each source has a default posting window:

Immediate — post as soon as the item is detected
Next slot — use the workspace's posting schedule (respects cooldowns)
Custom delay — e.g. "post 2 hours after the article publishes"

Step 6 — Handle failures

If a source fails to fetch 3 times in a row, Aidelly:

Auto-pauses the source
Emails you with the error
Surfaces a banner in the auto-post page

Click Resume to retry. The activity log records every pause and resume.

Smart dedup

If the same item URL appears multiple times (re-edited on the source, syndicated, slug changed), Aidelly dedupes by canonical URL + content hash so you never re-post the same piece. YouTube items dedupe on video ID; podcasts dedupe on GUID.

How auto-post interacts with other Aidelly features

Crosspost Routes — every auto-post publish runs through your routes, so a single source can hit 12 destinations.
Queues — assign an auto-post source to a queue and new items drop into the queue tail instead of publishing immediately.
Campaigns — auto-post sources can assign new items to a campaign automatically.
Post Signatures — auto-post publishes append signatures just like composer publishes.
Cooldowns — respected on every auto-post publish.

Common patterns

Personal blog → LinkedIn + X auto-publish — auto-publish to your own profiles, no review needed.
Podcast → IG + X teaser auto-draft — new episode dropped Monday, drafts queued for your review.
Client agency blog → Auto-draft on every client workspace — drafts queued for client approval.
YouTube channel → LinkedIn long-form + X hook — every upload syndicated to written channels.

Repurpose — turn one article into multiple platform formats manually.
Posting Cooldowns — auto-post runs respect cooldowns automatically.
Brand Profile — set the brand memory the AI uses for captions.
Crosspost Routes — fan each auto-post publish out to 12 destinations.