How to automate your social media content using Airtable, BannerBear and Zapier
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What is Airtable?
Airtable is an awesome tool that acts like a spreadsheet but also makes it very easy to get data in and out of your spreadsheets through integrations with other apps.
What is Bannerbear?
Bannerbear is an API for generating images. You design a template (or grab one from the library) and then feed in data using the API to generate images based off that template e.g. with different texts, colors and background images.
What can I do with Airtable + Bannerbear?
If you're creating social media assets over and over again based on a particular template, you can use Bannerbear to automate this process. Organize your data on Airtable, click a button to import into Bannerbear, and watch all your images get magically generated!
This way you can do all your content planning for clients entirely in Airtable using just text, then when you're ready to produce the assets for posting, you just click one button.
And all of this using #nocode!
Sample images
By the end of this tutorial you'll have automatically generated images like this:


Copy the key to your clipboard:





Connecting the template to Airtable
On the template page (the one we left off at above) scroll to the bottom to find the Airtable icon - click it to go to the Airtable integration page:

Set the Base ID and Table Name
Every Airtable Base has a special Base ID and Table Name that you need to use to connect with the Template.
You can find the Base ID in the API Documentation on Airtable:





Import Airtable data
You're all set now!
If you copied my Airtable Base above, feel free to add more rows of data or overwrite the existing data with your own.
If you started a Base from scratch, add some rows of data before trying to import.
For reference, my Airtable Base / Table has data like this:

