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        "content": "## Draft social posts from new RSS feed items with OpenAI and queue approved ones in Google Sheets\n\nEach new post in your blog's RSS feed gets LinkedIn, X and Facebook drafts from OpenAI, emailed to you for approval. Approved drafts go to a Google Sheets queue; nothing is published automatically.\n\n### How it works\n1. The RSS Feed Trigger checks your feed for new posts every hour.\n2. OpenAI drafts one post per network in your brand voice; the X draft is checked against 280 characters. Article text is treated as untrusted input.\n3. Gmail sends you all three drafts and waits for Approve or Decline.\n4. Approve adds a row to your **Approved posts** sheet with status `Ready to schedule`. Decline stops there.\n5. If a step fails, you get an email with the post link or the drafts.\n\n### Setup\n1. Put your feed URL in **New blog post**.\n2. Open **Configure me** and set your brand voice, email and Google Sheet ID.\n3. Create a sheet tab named **Approved posts** with headers `Date`, `Article`, `Link`, `LinkedIn`, `X`, `Facebook`, `Status`.\n4. Connect OpenAI, Gmail and Google Sheets, and choose a current OpenAI model in **Draft posts with AI**.\n5. Test with one post, then activate.\n\n### Customization\n- Connect your scheduling tool to the queue sheet, or post from it by hand.\n- Add or remove networks by editing the AI step's JSON schema and the sheet columns together.\n\nTested on: **Not yet tested**\n\nFull guide: [Vetted Authority](https://vettedauthority.com/templates/rss-to-social-drafts)",
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