Postiz is a tool to schedule social media and chat posts to 28+ channels X, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Page, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook Page, Threads, YouTube, Google My Business, TikTok, Pinterest, Dribbble, Discord, Slack, Kick, Twitch, Mastodon, Bluesky, Lemmy, Farcaster, Telegram, Nostr, VK, Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode, WordPress, ListMonk

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Install Postiz if it doesn't exist

npm install -g postiz
# or
pnpm install -g postiz

npm release: https://www.npmjs.com/package/postiz postiz github: https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app postiz cli github: https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app official website: https://postiz.com ---

| Property | Value | |----------|-------| | name | postiz | | description | Social media automation CLI for scheduling posts across 28+ platforms | | allowed-tools | Bash(postiz:*) |

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⚠️ Authentication Required

You MUST authenticate before running any Postiz CLI command. All commands will fail without valid credentials.

Before doing anything else, check auth status:

postiz auth:status

If not authenticated, either:

1. OAuth2: postiz auth:login
2. API Key: export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

Do NOT proceed with any other commands until authentication is confirmed.

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Core Workflow

The fundamental pattern for using Postiz CLI:

1. Authenticate - Verify or set up authentication (see above)
2. Discover - List integrations and get their settings
3. Fetch - Use integration tools to retrieve dynamic data (flairs, playlists, companies)
4. Prepare - Upload media files if needed
5. Post - Create posts with content, media, and platform-specific settings
6. Analyze - Track performance with platform and post-level analytics
7. Resolve - If analytics returns {"missing": true}, run posts:missing to list provider content, then posts:connect to link it

# 1. Authenticate
postiz auth:status
# If not authenticated: postiz auth:login --client-id <id> --client-secret <secret>

# 2. Discover
postiz integrations:list
postiz integrations:settings <integration-id>

# 3. Fetch (if needed)
postiz integrations:trigger <integration-id> <method> -d '{"key":"value"}'

# 4. Prepare
postiz upload image.jpg

# 5. Post
postiz posts:create -c "Content" -m "image.jpg" -i "<integration-id>"

# 6. Analyze
postiz analytics:platform <integration-id> -d 30
postiz analytics:post <post-id> -d 7

# 7. Resolve (if analytics returns {"missing": true})
postiz posts:missing <post-id>
postiz posts:connect <post-id> --release-id "<content-id>"

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Essential Commands

Authentication

Option 1: OAuth2 (Recommended)

# Login via device flow (opens browser, no client ID/secret needed)
postiz auth:login

# Check auth status (verifies credentials are still valid)
postiz auth:status

# Logout (remove stored credentials)
postiz auth:logout

Credentials are stored in ~/.postiz/credentials.json. OAuth2 credentials take priority over API key.

Option 2: API Key

export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Optional custom API URL:

export POSTIZ_API_URL=https://custom-api-url.com

Integration Discovery

# List all connected integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Get settings schema for specific integration
postiz integrations:settings <integration-id>

# Trigger integration tool to fetch dynamic data
postiz integrations:trigger <integration-id> <method-name>
postiz integrations:trigger <integration-id> <method-name> -d '{"param":"value"}'

Creating Posts

# Simple post (date is REQUIRED)
postiz posts:create -c "Content" -s "2024-12-31T12:00:00Z" -i "integration-id"

# Draft post
postiz posts:create -c "Content" -s "2024-12-31T12:00:00Z" -t draft -i "integration-id"

# Post with media
postiz posts:create -c "Content" -m "img1.jpg,img2.jpg" -s "2024-12-31T12:00:00Z" -i "integration-id"

# Post with comments (each with own media)
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Main post" -m "main.jpg" \
  -c "First comment" -m "comment1.jpg" \
  -c "Second comment" -m "comment2.jpg,comment3.jpg" \
  -s "2024-12-31T12:00:00Z" \
  -i "integration-id"

# Multi-platform post
postiz posts:create -c "Content" -s "2024-12-31T12:00:00Z" -i "twitter-id,linkedin-id,facebook-id"

# Platform-specific settings
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Content" \
  -s "2024-12-31T12:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"subreddit":[{"value":{"subreddit":"programming","title":"My Post","type":"text"}}]}' \
  -i "reddit-id"

# Complex post from JSON file
postiz posts:create --json post.json

Managing Posts

# List posts (defaults to last 30 days to next 30 days)
postiz posts:list

# List posts in date range
postiz posts:list --startDate "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z" --endDate "2024-12-31T23:59:59Z"

# Delete post
postiz posts:delete <post-id>

Analytics

# Get platform analytics (default: last 7 days)
postiz analytics:platform <integration-id>

# Get platform analytics for last 30 days
postiz analytics:platform <integration-id> -d 30

# Get post analytics (default: last 7 days)
postiz analytics:post <post-id>

# Get post analytics for last 30 days
postiz analytics:post <post-id> -d 30

Returns an array of metrics (e.g. Followers, Impressions, Likes, Comments) with daily data points and percentage change over the period.

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Missing Release ID Handling

If analytics:post returns {"missing": true} instead of an analytics array, the post was published but the platform didn't return a usable post ID. You must resolve this before analytics will work:

# 1. analytics:post returns {"missing": true}
postiz analytics:post <post-id>

# 2. Get available content from the provider
postiz posts:missing <post-id>
# Returns: [{"id": "7321456789012345678", "url": "https://...cover.jpg"}, ...]

# 3. Connect the correct content to the post
postiz posts:connect <post-id> --release-id "7321456789012345678"

# 4. Now analytics will work
postiz analytics:post <post-id>

Connecting Missing Posts

Some platforms (e.g. TikTok) don't return a post ID immediately after publishing. When this happens, the post's releaseId is set to "missing" and analytics are unavailable until resolved.

# List recent content from the provider for a post with missing release ID
postiz posts:missing <post-id>

# Connect a post to its published content
postiz posts:connect <post-id> --release-id "<content-id>"

Returns an empty array if the provider doesn't support this feature or if the post doesn't have a missing release ID.

Media Upload

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Always upload files to Postiz before using them in posts. Many platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube) require verified URLs and will reject external links.

# Upload file and get URL
postiz upload image.jpg

# Supports: images (PNG, JPG, GIF, WEBP, SVG), videos (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WEBM),
# audio (MP3, WAV, OGG, AAC), documents (PDF, DOC, DOCX)

# Workflow: Upload → Extract URL → Use in post
VIDEO=$(postiz upload video.mp4)
VIDEO_PATH=$(echo "$VIDEO" | jq -r '.path')
postiz posts:create -c "Content" -s "2024-12-31T12:00:00Z" -m "$VIDEO_PATH" -i "tiktok-id"

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Common Patterns

Pattern 1: Discover & Use Integration Tools

Reddit - Get flairs for a subreddit:

# Get Reddit integration ID
REDDIT_ID=$(postiz integrations:list | jq -r '.[] | select(.identifier=="reddit") | .id')

# Fetch available flairs
FLAIRS=$(postiz integrations:trigger "$REDDIT_ID" getFlairs -d '{"subreddit":"programming"}')
FLAIR_ID=$(echo "$FLAIRS" | jq -r '.output[0].id')

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