# Automating social media posts with tag-specific RSS

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/automating-social-media-posts-with-tag-specific-rss/46263>\
**Category:** tips & tricks\
**Created:** [September 17, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/automating-social-media-posts-with-tag-specific-rss/46263 "2023-09-17T23:51:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![raw](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/raw/32/22319_2.png) [@raw](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/raw)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/automating-social-media-posts-with-tag-specific-rss/46263/1 "2023-09-17T23:51:20Z")

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It took me a while to figure this out and I thought folks here might find it useful:

**TL;DR** : You can automatically create social media posts from specific Hugo blog posts using tags, RSS, and either [IFTTT](https://ifttt.com/applets/G7jpfrvD-rss-feed-to-linkedin) or [Make.com](https://www.make.com/en/register?pc=rawworks). Just point the automation to the tag-specific RSS link: `https://yourwebsite.com/tags/yourtag/index.xml`

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Here is my personal blog post on the process (which was also used to test the IFTTT integration to post on my LI):

[https://raw.works/automating-social-media-posts-for-hugo-sites/](https://raw.works/automating-social-media-posts-for-hugo-sites/)

(Full disclosure, I did need to clean up the LI post a bit manually after it posted, but I think with a bit of work this could become a cool way to automate social re-sharing of my Hugo posts.)

As I wrote on my site, this seemed super easy, then became much harder than expected when I realized I didn’t want to automatically share every single blog post, then easy again when I realized Hugo builds unique RSS feeds for each tag, then hard again when I actually saw the resulting LI post was formatted weird…

Does anyone have a similar workflow? I would be excited to learn what others are doing in the realm of social media automation for Hugo sites.

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**Author:** ![gora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@gora](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/gora)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/automating-social-media-posts-with-tag-specific-rss/46263/2 "2023-09-18T09:55:27Z")

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Hi @raw

Sorry but this tip / trick is not at all hugo related it is about rss feed to some other site.

Also I use rss feed to post on meta. I simply use the google sheets to fetch data (using simple format provided by sheets to fetch feeds) and then use meta api to post it via Cloudflare. Cost me 0$ and there is no limit on number of channel or filters I can place. But I will not post that in this form as it is not related to Hugo.

This is just non relevant spam on Hugo, I believe, my opinion, just saying

Thanks