Antwork for Zapier

Turn any Zapier trigger into an Antwork draft, then schedule or publish it to your connected social accounts. Every post starts as a draft, and nothing goes public unless your Zap has a step that sends it.

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What it does

Antwork drafts, schedules and publishes posts to the social accounts you connect to it. The Zapier integration brings that to any Zap: a new row in a sheet, a form answer, an RSS item or a product launch can become an Antwork draft, and a later step in the same Zap can schedule or publish it.

Trigger

Step	What it does
New Published Post	Starts a Zap when a post goes live on a social account through Antwork. Optional filters: workspace and social account. Needs `read`.

Actions

Step	What it does
Create Draft Post	Saves a draft for one social account, with optional media URLs and a proposed time. Never publishes. Needs `write`, and `media` for media URLs.
Schedule Post	Schedules an existing post. It goes public on the social account at the time you set. Needs `publish`.
Publish Post Now (Goes Public)	Publishes an existing post right away. Needs `publish`.

Search

Step	What it does
Find Post	Finds an Antwork post by its ID. Needs `read`.

Get access

The integration is in beta and available by invite for now. Open the invite link while signed in to Zapier, accept it, and Antwork appears among your apps when you build a Zap.

Add Antwork to your Zapier account

You also need an Antwork account with at least one social account connected. Signing up is free. Create an Antwork account

Connect your account

Zapier signs in to Antwork with an API key. You create it once in Antwork and paste it into Zapier.

In Antwork, open your workspace, then Settings > Developer > Manage API keys.
Create a key and name it, for example Zapier. Copy it straight away: it starts with ak_ and is shown only once, because Antwork stores only a hash of it.
In Zapier, add an Antwork step, choose to connect a new account, and paste the key into API Key. Zapier names the connection after your workspace.

Scopes each step needs

A key carries scopes, and every scope includes read. Keys created in Settings carry all four today, so one key covers every Antwork step in Zapier.

Scope	Used by
read	Every step: the connection test, the workspace and account dropdowns, New Published Post and Find Post.
write	Create Draft Post.
publish	Schedule Post and Publish Post Now.
media	Media URLs on Create Draft Post.

A key belongs to you and reaches every workspace you own. To cut Zapier off, revoke the key in the same place you created it.

API keys and scopes

How each step behaves

Create Draft Post

Always saves a draft. It never publishes, whatever the trigger sends.
One social account per step. To post the same idea on several accounts, add one Create Draft Post step per account, each with text written for that platform. One body is never sent to several accounts.
Media URLs are public links to images, videos or PDFs. Antwork downloads each one into your media library first, then attaches it to the draft. This needs the media scope.
Proposed Time only stores a time on the draft. It does not schedule anything; add Schedule Post for that.
The output carries the Post ID for the next step, a link to edit the draft in Antwork, and whether the text is over the character limit or the platform still needs media, so a Zapier filter can stop before sending.

Schedule Post

Takes a Post ID and a Publish At time, in the future and at most 30 days ahead. The post goes public on the social account at that time. You can unschedule it from Antwork.

Publish Post Now (Goes Public)

Takes a Post ID and publishes it to the social account immediately. The post is public as soon as the step runs, and it cannot be undone from Zapier.

Find Post

Looks a post up by its ID. When no post matches, the search returns no result rather than an error, so the Zap can branch on it.

New Published Post

A polling trigger: Zapier checks Antwork for newly published posts on your Zapier plan's schedule, so a Zap starts some minutes after the post goes live rather than at the same second. Leave workspace and account empty to watch every one.

TikTok posts

TikTok asks the account owner to choose each post's audience, interactions and disclosure, so those choices are yours, per post, and Zapier never makes them. Create Draft Post works for TikTok, but Schedule Post and Publish Post Now on a TikTok post fail with a link to the post in Antwork, where you pick the settings and send it.

Repeated steps

Every step that creates or sends something carries a key made from the Zap, the step and its input. If Zapier replays a step, Antwork returns the first answer instead of making a second draft or a second publish. In practice:

The same Zap sending identical input twice within 24 hours makes one post, not two.
Running Publish Post Now again on the same post within 24 hours returns the first result instead of trying again. To retry a failed post, retry it from Antwork.

Errors and fixes

When Antwork refuses a step, Zapier shows Antwork's message with a hint. The common ones:

Error	What to do
insufficient_scope	The key lacks the scope this step needs. Create a key in Settings > Developer > Manage API keys and reconnect Antwork in Zapier.
401	The key was revoked or is no longer valid. Zapier asks you to reconnect: create a new key and paste it into the connection.
429	Too many requests in a short time. Zapier waits for the time Antwork asks for and retries on its own.
text_too_long	The text is over the platform's character limit. Shorten it before publishing.
media_required	The platform needs media: Instagram (image or video), YouTube (video), TikTok (video) and Pinterest (image or video). Add a media URL to the draft.
tiktok_choices_needed	Choose the TikTok settings on the post in Antwork, then publish or schedule it from there.
pinterest_board_required	Pinterest pins need a board. Pick one on the post in Antwork.
token_invalid	The social account needs reconnecting in Antwork, under Connections.
subscription_inactive	Your Antwork subscription is inactive. Reactivate it under Billing.
idempotency_in_flight	The same request is still running. Zapier retries it shortly.

Character limits and media formats for every network are on the platform reference, and request rate limits on the REST API overview.

Questions

Is it free?

The integration costs nothing extra. Antwork's first 2 connected social accounts are free, and each one after that is billed per account. Your Zaps also count against your own Zapier plan's limits, like any other app.

Does Zapier publish without my approval?

No. Create Draft Post only saves a draft. A post goes out only if your Zap includes a Schedule Post or Publish Post Now step for it, so leaving those steps out means every post waits for you in Antwork.

Which social networks does it work with?

Every network Antwork publishes to: X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Bluesky, Discord, Mastodon and Telegram. TikTok posts can be drafted from Zapier; you pick their TikTok settings and send them from Antwork.

Can one step post to several accounts?

No. One Create Draft Post step is one account, so add a step for each account and write the text for that platform.

Help and links

Zapier's steps run on Antwork's public REST API, so the API reference describes every field and error in more detail.

Questions, or a Zap that does not behave as expected? Write to iker.gonzalez@antwork.io.

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