How to post carousels to instagram, pinterest and telegram from google sheets and google drive

What are you trying to achieve?

I am trying to post to instagram, pinterest and telegram from google sheets and google drive.

Steps taken so far

In my google sheets I have captions of posts and urls of pictures stored in google drive. When I run the scenario, regular posts to instagram and pinterest are working perfectly and pictures and captions are perfectly being posted into instagram and pinterest. But telegram module gives an error “missing value in pictureURL”.
For carousel posts I get the same mistake for url fileds in all of 3 modules - instagram, pinterest and telegram. So basically only instagram and pinterest for regular posts are working. Could you please help me to find out what is wrong?

Also I tried to include Array Agregator module, Set Variable modules, but nothing changed

Screenshots: scenario setup, module configuration, errors

Welcome to the Make community!

To post a carousel of images to Telegram, you need to use an Iterator-Aggregator combo and the “Send an Album” module.

Aggregators

Every result (item/record) from iterator/list/search/match modules will output a bundle. This can result in multiple bundles, which then trigger multiple operations in future modules (one operation per bundle). To “combine” multiple bundles into a single variable, you’ll need to use an aggregator of some sort.

Aggregators are modules that accumulate multiple bundles into one single bundle. An example of a commonly-used aggregator module is the Array aggregator module.

Array Aggregator – mapping multiple bundles into a complex field

The Array Aggregator module is very powerful because it allows you to build a complex array of collections for a later module’s field to map multiple items (collections) to it.

This is done using the “Target structure type” of an Array Aggregator module.

Here is an example:

As you can see, the “Map” toggle on complex fields are used when you have an array. You can easily build an array variable to map to a future module’s field, by using an Array Aggregator module and select the “Target Structure Type” as the future module’s field you have mapped the array into.

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Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

Hi @Eklisa
You can utilize the array aggregator to work with the carousel post module by setting the target in the array aggregator to “files” and then mapping that array in the Instagram post module.

Best regards,

Msquare Automation
Gold Partner of Make
@Msquare_Automation

This doesn’t work, I’ve tried not once. And today even with usual post to pinterest - it stopped working. The spreadsheet module gets all the data correctly and the url is there, but pinterest module shows an error - “missing value of required parameter - url”, just the same as telegram module while instagram module posts everything perfectly



Doesn’t work that way. If I put only array, it shows warning “array has only one items”, so I have to add more items in the module and add a picture from array in every item. And still after launching it shows an error “Missing value of required parameter 'image_url”;


But the links are 100% there - I can copy link manually and paste into a browser and it is being successfully downloaded. The regular photo post to instagram works perfectly

Hi @Eklisa
You have to map the array not the url inside the array.
image

Best regards,

Msquare Automation
Gold Partner of Make
@Msquare_Automation

I tried it before writing here and now again - still the same error

Upd.: instagram module has also stopped working. I didn’t even touch it. Now there are no modules that work