Zac's Pants

An automated social media posting app

• Puppeteer.js
• Typescript
• No API tokens, subscriptions, or sign up
• Free and Open Source
• Simple JSON object format for posts
• Create one post object, post to everywhere in one place.
• Runs only on your computer; zacs_pantsis not a centralized service or database.
• Hopefully an awesome scheduler. Uses your computer's clock.

To-Do List

• Posting to LinkedIn
• Posting simple title + text to Reddit
• Posting images + video to Reddit ( WIP )
• Add cronjob and check for posts that are scheduled
• Prepare frontend for desktop app with tauri ( Chakra UI )
• Posting to Instagram
• Add support for multiple media files
• Posting to Instagram Stories
• Posting to Youtube
• Posting to Youtube Shorts
• Posting to Youtube Stories
• Posting to TikTok

How to use

This little automated posting app depends on a settings.json and posts.json

# Clone this repo
cd zacs_pants/application


# install the dependencies
yarn install

# Install the chromium browser for puppeteer
yarn setup

# Setup your credentials
cp settings.json.example settings.json
vim settings.json

# Add your media videos or images
mkdir media
mv yourImageOrVideo.png media/

# Setup your posts
cp posts.json.example posts.json
vim posts.json


# Start the app.
yarn start

posts.json schema

[
    {
        "datesToPost": ["2022-04-24T20:11:10.193Z"], // doesn't work yet
        "description": "the description of this post.",
        "hashtags": [
            "#help",
            "#ayo",
            "#bruh"
        ],
        "mediaSource": "nameOfFileInMediaFolder.jpg", // file name in application/media/ folder
        "meta": {
            "subreddits": [ // for reddit posts
                "r/duckduckgo"
            ]
        },
        "platforms": [
            "linkedin",
	        "reddit" // you can now post only text/desription to reddit!
        ],
        "title": "title for this post. linkedin doesn't have titles, but other social medias do ( like youtube )"
    }
]