Create and publish Instagram carousels using OpenAI gpt-image-1 and AI captions

# 🧰 Instagram Carousel Scheduler

A tool to automatically publish Instagram carousels using a Post Description, Instructions, and the number of images you want to post — all directly from a Google Sheet.

At the end of each post, the next row is marked as Pending, allowing fully automated posting, so you can prepare months of content in advance.

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## ✅ Requirements

📱 *Instagram Business Account**

Required to publish content via the Meta Graph API.

Make sure your IG account is connected to a Facebook Page.

🔐 *Facebook Developers Token**

Required to use the Graph API and publish on Instagram.

👉 It's highly recommended to create a System User so your token never expires.

☁️ *Cloudinary Upload Preset**

Used to upload generated images and retrieve public URLs.

👉 Use an unsigned upload preset (no API key required).

🧠 *OpenAI API Key**

Used for:

Generating a *caption** from the post description.

Creating *image prompts**.

Generating images using *`gpt-image-1`**.

⚠️ You might need to verify your business with OpenAI to access this model.

📊 *Google Sheets App with OAuth credentials**

To fetch your content and instructions from the spreadsheet.

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## 💬 Notes and Customization

✏️ You can *customize the prompt** to change the visual style of the images.

Examples:

* Gumball style

* Comic-style illustration

* Digital painting

🔄 You can *replace Google Sheets** with tools like:

* Airtable

* Notion

* Your own database

🔐 If Facebook requires a *Privacy Policy**, you can quickly create one here:

👉 [https://www.privacypolicygenerator.info](https://www.privacypolicygenerator.info)