# Buffer integration

> Schedule and publish social media posts, manage channels, retrieve post data, and organize content ideas across multiple social networks via GraphQL API.

- Authentication: apiKey

## Tools (9)

- **Create Idea**: Creates a new content idea in an organization with a title, text, optional media, tags, target services, and grouping. Ideas are platform-agnostic drafts that can later be converted to posts.
- **Create Post**: Creates a new social media post on a channel with text, optional images/videos/documents, scheduling options, tags, and platform-specific metadata. Supports queue, share now, share next, and custom-scheduled modes.
- **Delete Post**: Deletes a post by its ID. Returns the deleted post ID on success, or an error if the post was not found.
- **Get Account**: Retrieves the authenticated user's account details including email, avatar, timezone, name, preferences, connected apps, and linked organizations with their IDs, names, limits, and channel counts.
- **Get Channel**: Retrieves details of a single social media channel by its ID, including service type, name, posting schedule, connection status, and platform-specific metadata.
- **Get Daily Posting Limits**: Retrieves daily posting limit status for one or more channels on a given date, showing how many posts are sent, scheduled, and whether the limit is reached.
- **Get Post**: Retrieves a single post by its ID, including text, status, scheduling info, assets, channel details, tags, notes, and platform-specific metadata.
- **List Channels**: Retrieves all connected social media channels for a given organization, with optional filters for locked status and product.
- **List Posts**: Retrieves a paginated list of posts for an organization with optional filters for status, channels, date range, and tags. Uses Relay-style cursor pagination.

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- [Weekly personal-brand photo shoot on autopilot](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/weekly-personal-brand-photo-shoot-on-autopilot.md)
- [Weather-reactive brand posts queued in Buffer](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/weather-reactive-brand-posts-queued-in-buffer.md)
- [Auto-share new WordPress posts to X and LinkedIn via Buffer](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/auto-share-new-wordpress-posts-to-x-and-linkedin-via-buffer.md)
- [Auto-share new Ghost posts to LinkedIn and Buffer](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/auto-share-new-ghost-posts-to-linkedin-and-buffer.md)
- [Auto-schedule your Notion social calendar to Buffer](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/auto-schedule-your-notion-social-calendar-to-buffer.md)
- [Weekly Buffer engagement digest in Slack every Monday](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/weekly-buffer-engagement-digest-in-slack-every-monday.md)

Connect Buffer in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/apps/buffer