A Zapier automation that creates a Medium story from a new published document in ContentBot
A Contenbot.ai document can easily be sent via Zapier to Medium as a story. Please see the video guide below that follows the steps required, alternatively please review the text based guide underneath the video
Step 1
Navigate to https://zapier.com/apps/contentbot/integrations and select the Try it Button on the right of the Create Medium Stories from new published documents in ContentBot template tile.
Step 2
Configure your Trigger :
- Select The Trigger Tile on the Zap editor
- This opens on the Account tab, (the App & event are already populated). Please check that the correct ContentBot account has been selected, and then select Continue
- Select Continue and Test Trigger, and Continue again once the test is successful
Step 3
Configure the Action :
The Create Story in Medium action tile opens on the Account tab, (the App & event tab is already populated).
- Please check that the correct Medium account is selected, if you have not yet connected your Medium account, please select Sign in, then review and select the Okay button to authorise Zapier to use your medium account. Then select Continue
- Check/Populate the Action details, in this example we will keep the following prepopulated settings – where we use the ContentBot Title as the Title and the ContentBot HTML as the Content.
- Select Continue and Test Action, and Publish Zap once the test is successful
Step 4
Publish your ContentBot.ai Document and view the results
You can now Publish your document from the ContentBot.ai Document Library by selecting File -> Publish -> Zapier
Once the document has been published it is placed in a queue, which is cleared and Processed when Zapier requests documents from ContentBot.ai, after this occurs you can view the Published Story on Medium
You have now successfully Created and run a Zap that creates a new Medium story whenever a ContentBot.ai document is published.