Automate Sharing Airtable Records on LinkedIn with Pabbly Connect

Learn how to automate sharing Airtable records as articles on LinkedIn using Pabbly Connect. Follow this step-by-step tutorial for seamless integration. Discover hidden automation capabilities within your existing tools. This guide shows you how to connect your essential applications and permanently eliminate redundant manual processes.

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1. Setting Up Pabbly Connect for Airtable to LinkedIn Integration

To begin sharing Airtable records on LinkedIn, you will first need to set up Pabbly Connect. This platform allows you to automate tasks effortlessly. Start by signing up for a free account on the Pabbly Connect website.

Once registered, log in to your Pabbly Connect account and navigate to the dashboard. From there, click on the ‘Create Workflow’ button to initiate your integration. This will allow you to name your workflow, such as ‘Airtable to LinkedIn’.

2. Configuring the Trigger with Airtable in Pabbly Connect

In this step, you will set up Airtable as the trigger application in Pabbly Connect. Select Airtable from the list of applications and choose the ‘New Record’ option as your trigger event. This means that every time you add a new record to your Airtable base, it will trigger the workflow.

• Select ‘Airtable’ as the application.
• Choose ‘New Record’ as the trigger event.
• Connect your Airtable account using the API key found in your Airtable account settings.

After connecting, select the base and table that contains the records you want to share. Ensure you have a ‘Created Time’ field, as this will be used to capture the date and time of the record creation, acting as the trigger for the automation.

3. Testing the Airtable Trigger in Pabbly Connect

Once you have configured the trigger, it is essential to test it. Click on the ‘Save and Send Test Request’ button in Pabbly Connect. This action will fetch the most recent entry from your Airtable base, allowing you to verify that the connection is working correctly.

In the response section, you should see the data from the latest record, including the content and image URL. This confirms that Pabbly Connect is successfully retrieving data from Airtable.

4. Setting Up the Action to Share on LinkedIn

Next, you will set up LinkedIn as the action application in Pabbly Connect. Search for LinkedIn and select the ‘Share an Article or URL’ action event. This step will allow you to post the content retrieved from Airtable directly to your LinkedIn profile.

• Select ‘LinkedIn’ as the application.
• Choose the action event ‘Share an Article or URL’.
• Connect your LinkedIn account by signing in and authorizing Pabbly Connect.

After connecting, map the fields from the Airtable trigger to the LinkedIn action. For example, map the content text and image URL to the corresponding fields in the LinkedIn post. Finally, choose the visibility settings for your post, whether to share it with connections or publicly.

5. Finalizing the Integration and Testing

After setting up the LinkedIn action, it’s time to finalize the integration. Click on ‘Save and Send Test Request’ in Pabbly Connect. This action will create a test post on your LinkedIn profile using the data from Airtable.

Check your LinkedIn profile to see if the post has been created successfully. You should see the content and image that you mapped from Airtable. This confirms that the automation is working as intended.

Congratulations! You have successfully set up an automation that shares Airtable records as articles on LinkedIn using Pabbly Connect. This setup only needs to be done once, and afterward, every new record added to Airtable will automatically be shared on LinkedIn.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we demonstrated how to use Pabbly Connect to automate sharing Airtable records as articles on LinkedIn. By following these steps, you can save time and streamline your content sharing process.