Auto-Post Breaking News with Perplexity AI to X

n8n Social Media Management Content Creation Marketing

Contributed by Sabrina Ramonov 🍄. From the community directory at agents.sabrina.dev, republished with permission and full credit.

Stay ahead of the curve and keep your followers informed, automatically.

This n8n workflow uses Perplexity AI to generate insightful answers to scheduled queries, then auto-posts the responses directly to X (Twitter).

What this workflow does

- Scheduled Trigger, Runs at set times (daily, hourly, etc.).

- searchQuery, Define what kind of trending or relevant insight you want (e.g. “latest AI trends”).

- set API Key, Securely insert your Perplexity API key.

- Perplexity API Call, Fetches a short, insightful response to your query.

- Post to X, Automatically publishes the result as a tweet.

Requirements

- An n8n account (self-hosted or cloud)

- A Perplexity API key

- A connected X (Twitter) account via n8n’s credentials

Setup Steps

1. Add this workflow into your n8n account.

2. Edit the searchQuery node with a topic (e.g. “What’s new in ecommerce automation?”).

3. Paste your Perplexity API key into the set API key node.

4. Connect your X (Twitter) account in the final node.

5. Adjust the schedule timing to suit your content frequency.

Ideas to Improve

- Add a formatting step to shorten or hashtag the response.

- Pull multiple trending questions and auto-schedule posts.

- Loop responses to queue a full week of content.

- Translate content before posting to reach a global audience.

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Tools used: Perplexity AI

Download the workflow template (JSON)

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