# Turn trending Tasty recipes into a week of Buffer posts > Every Monday at 8am, pick five trending recipes, write captions for Instagram, Facebook and X, and queue the whole week in Buffer. - Workflow type: agent - Services: Tasty, Buffer, Slack Bot - Categories: Marketing - Published: 2026-08-10 ## What it does - Every Monday morning it checks what is trending on Tasty and picks five recipes that fit your brand's style, like quick dinners, vegetarian or comfort food. - It looks at the last 60 days of your own posts first, so it never queues a recipe you have already shared. - It writes a different caption for each platform: a short hook with hashtags for Instagram, a longer story for Facebook, and one punchy line for X, each with the recipe photo, credit to Tasty and a link to the original recipe. - It schedules all five across the week in Buffer and sends you a Slack message with every caption and time, so you can edit or pull anything before it goes live. ## What you'll need - A Tasty connection. The free plan is enough for this workflow and takes a couple of minutes to set up. - A Buffer account with your Instagram, Facebook and X channels already connected. You need to be the owner of your Buffer organization to connect it. - A Slack workspace and a channel where the weekly rundown should be posted. - A short list of the recipe styles that match your brand, so the picks feel on-brand rather than random. ## Prompt Every Monday at 8am, build my food brand's social week out of what is trending on Tasty and queue it in Buffer. The end result should be five recipes picked, captions written for each platform, everything scheduled across the week, and a Slack message to me listing what is going out so I can edit or pull anything before it goes live. Start by calling Tasty List Tags to confirm the exact tag slugs before filtering anything. My brand's tags are under_30_minutes, vegetarian and comfort_food, but check them against the real list rather than assuming, because Tasty silently returns empty results for tag strings that are not real slugs. Pull candidates with Tasty List Recipes filtered to those confirmed tags and sorted by popularity. Request a single page of results rather than paginating deeply. The Tasty free plan only allows 500 requests per month, so this workflow should stay economical: one List Recipes page plus one List Feeds call per run. List Recipes already returns hero images, ingredients and nutrition, so do not call Get Recipe Details afterwards. It is redundant and often returns a 404. Call Tasty List Feeds once to see what is featured on the Tasty homepage right now, and prefer recipes that appear in both the popularity-sorted list and the current feed. List Feeds requires a timezone in plus-or-minus hhmm format, for example -0500, so pass my timezone explicitly. Before drafting anything, call Buffer List Posts covering the last 60 days across all of my channels and build a list of recipes I have already posted. Match on both the recipe name and the source recipe link. Never queue a recipe that already appears in that history. This dedupe step is the whole point of the workflow, because without it the same popular recipes get re-posted week after week. Call Buffer List Channels to resolve my Instagram, Facebook and X channel IDs. Use the channel IDs returned there rather than hardcoding anything. Pick five recipes. For each one, call Tasty List Recipe Tips and look for a genuine reviewer quote worth using as a hook. If a recipe has no usable tip, either use a different angle for that recipe or pick a different recipe. Never invent a quote or attribute words to a reviewer who did not write them. For each of the five recipes, write a caption tailored to each platform: a short hook plus relevant hashtags for Instagram, a longer story-style post for Facebook, and one punchy line for X. Attach the recipe's hero image from the List Recipes result. Always credit Tasty and link to the original recipe page. Write original caption copy about the recipe. Do not republish the full ingredient list or the step-by-step instructions as if they were my brand's own content, since this is BuzzFeed Tasty material and attribution matters. Queue each post with Buffer Create Post using custom scheduled times rather than dropping them into the default queue. Spread the five recipes across the week so roughly one lands per day, and stagger the three platform versions of the same recipe so they do not all publish at the same minute. Finally, send me a Slack message listing the five picks with the recipe name, the link to the original Tasty recipe, the scheduled time for each channel, and the full caption text for every platform version. I want to be able to read the whole week in that one message and go edit or delete anything in Buffer before it publishes. ## How to customize - Change the day and time it runs, and how the five posts are spread across the week. - Swap the recipe styles it draws from, such as quick dinners, vegetarian, comfort food, desserts or healthy. - Add or drop social channels, and change the tone and length of each platform's caption. - Widen or narrow the lookback window used to avoid repeating recipes. ## Example output This week's five picks are queued in Buffer. Nothing publishes until you approve. 1. Creamy Tuscan Garlic Chicken (under_30_minutes) Recipe: https://tasty.co/recipe/creamy-tuscan-garlic-chicken Instagram Tue 11:00am, Facebook Tue 11:20am, X Tue 11:40am Instagram: "30 minutes. One pan. That garlic cream sauce. A reviewer called it 'restaurant quality on a Tuesday' and honestly, same. Full recipe from Tasty in our link. #weeknightdinner #onepan #comfortfood" Facebook: "We have been looking for a weeknight dinner that feels like a treat without the Sunday-level effort, and this one keeps winning..." X: "Restaurant-quality garlic cream sauce in 30 minutes flat. Recipe via Tasty." 2. Vegetarian Baked Ziti (vegetarian) Recipe: https://tasty.co/recipe/vegetarian-baked-ziti Instagram Wed 12:00pm, Facebook Wed 12:20pm, X Wed 12:40pm ... Skipped 3 recipes already posted in the last 60 days. ## FAQ ### Will this post to my accounts automatically? Not directly. Everything is placed in your Buffer queue at a scheduled time, and you get a Slack message with the full text of every caption first. You can edit or delete anything in Buffer before it publishes. ### Does this copy recipes from Tasty? No. It writes original caption copy about each recipe, credits Tasty, and links to the original recipe page instead of republishing the ingredient list or the cooking instructions. ### Will it keep posting the same popular recipes every week? No. Before it drafts anything it reviews your last 60 days of posts and skips any recipe you have already shared, so each week brings genuinely new picks. ### Do I need to pay for anything? Tasty's free plan covers this, since the workflow only makes a handful of checks each Monday rather than crawling the whole site. Buffer's free plan works too, though you do need to be the owner of your Buffer account to connect it. ### Can I use social channels other than Instagram, Facebook and X? Yes. It reads whichever channels you have connected in Buffer, so you can add LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads or TikTok, or drop the ones you do not use, and ask for a caption style for each. Use this prompt in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/turn-trending-tasty-recipes-into-a-week-of-buffer-posts