Post a Daily Birthday Instagram Story and Send a Slack Greeting from Google Sheets (AI Message)
Automatically check your Google Sheets birthday list every day, generate a warm AI-written birthday message, post a birthday Instagram Story using a reliable image URL, and share the same greeting in Slack.
By Sujal Rai
Installed by 1 users
Post a Daily Birthday Instagram Story and Send a Slack Greeting from Google Sheets (AI Message)
Post a Daily Birthday Instagram Story and Send a Slack Greeting from Google Sheets (AI Message)
Introduction
Keep birthdays from slipping through the cracks by connecting Google Sheets, AI, Instagram, and Slack. This daily automation checks who has a birthday today, writes a personalized message, posts an Instagram Story, and notifies your team in Slack.
Benefits
- Eliminates daily manual birthday checks and copy/paste work
- Ensures consistent birthday shout-outs on Instagram and in Slack
- Sends messages only when a birthday match is found (no unnecessary noise)
- Uses a tested, stable image URL for the Instagram Story for reliable posting
Trigger Event
Every day on a schedule (cron), the automation runs and reads your selected Google Sheet to see if anyone’s birthday matches today’s date.
Actions
- Pull birthdays from Google Sheets: Fetches rows from your sheet and filters them to find birthdays that match today’s month and day.
- Generate a personalized birthday greeting with AI: If a match is found, the automation creates a short, warm birthday message tailored to the person’s name.
- Post an Instagram Story: Publishes a birthday Instagram Story using a pre-tested public birthday image URL (so the post works reliably even without an image generation step).
- Send the greeting to Slack: Posts the same AI-generated birthday message into your chosen Slack channel so your team can join in the celebration.
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