Create LinkedIn posts from articles with OpenAI, Pexels and Google Sheets

by Khadija Naeem ✓ · 11 views · created 2026-08-12 · Content Creation, Multimodal AI

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 16 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day at 12:00). Along the way it connects Google Sheets, OpenAI Chat Model, Google Drive and LinkedIn and 1 more. It also calls api.tavily.com, api.pexels.com and api.linkedin.com over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day at 12:00).

1. Get row(s) in sheet (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
2. HTTP Request: calls api.tavily.com (POST)
3. Generate Content (AI Agent): runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model
4. AI Image Query Agent (AI Agent): runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model
5. Fetch images from web (HTTP Request): calls api.pexels.com
6. AI Image Selector (OpenAI): analyze (image)
7. Fetch Url (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
8. Fetch Actual Image (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
9. Download Image (Google Drive): uses Google Drive
10. Post Image to LinkedIn (HTTP Request): calls api.linkedin.com (POST)

…plus 3 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

Google SheetsOpenAI Chat ModelGoogle DriveLinkedInOpenAI

HTTP calls to: api.tavily.com, api.pexels.com, api.linkedin.com

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Nodes used (9)

• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Google Sheetsn8n-nodes-base.googleSheets
• OpenAI Chat Model@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi
• AI Agent@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.agent
• Google Driven8n-nodes-base.googleDrive
• LinkedInn8n-nodes-base.linkedIn
• OpenAI@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code

From the author

Quick overview This workflow runs on a daily schedule, reads a “TO DO” topic from Google Sheets, uses Tavily and OpenAI to generate a LinkedIn post, finds and selects a matching image from Pexels, uploads the image to LinkedIn, publishes the post, and writes…

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