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Posting to Twitter from Reddit using Google Drive

  • January 10, 2022
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I’m trying to automate video posting from reddit to twitter.

It should work like this:
When a video is hot in reddit, download to google drive, then when a new file is in google drive, post it to twitter.

All of this works except when my mp4 goes to post to twitter, it errors with the following:
 

 

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  • January 10, 2022

Thanks for your help Troy, is the description field necessary for the mp4 file to be found? I’m not quite following that part


Troy Tessalone
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  • January 10, 2022

@justneedhelp11

When I add the description it says ‘no data’ next to it

Unless the GDrive File has meta data already, it likely won’t have a value for the Description data point.

 

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  • January 10, 2022

When I add the description it says ‘no data’ next to it, for your reference the file is 3.9 MB, its a 6 second video


Troy Tessalone
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@justneedhelp11

Make sure to reference the description under the File field.

Unable to tell the file size for this example shown in the screenshot.

 


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  • January 10, 2022

Hey Troy, thanks for your help, I’ve complied it all into one pic for you

 

 


Troy Tessalone
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  • January 10, 2022

Hi @justneedhelp11 

Please post screenshots with how your Zap steps are currently configured, thanks.