Hopscotch Zapier integrationAutomate Hopscotch with Zapier.
The Hopscotch Zapier integration gives you 8 triggers and 4 actions, with no search step. Every trigger is instant, so a published or scheduled post reaches Zapier the moment it happens, even on the free plan, with no waiting interval.
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What the Hopscotch Zapier integration actually does
Hopscotch is a social media management tool: you plan, schedule and publish posts across your social accounts from one place. Linking it to Zapier means a post event in Hopscotch can start an automation, and an automation can push a post back into Hopscotch, without you copying text between tabs.
Three results you can build with what Zapier exposes. First, a mirror: when a post goes live on one account (Post Published), Hopscotch publishes a version of it on a second account through Publish Post. Second, a steady pipeline: content coming out of another tool lands in Hopscotch's smart queue through Smart Queue Post instead of going live at once. Third, a planned calendar: Schedule Post books a post for a date and time you pass in, which suits a content plan kept somewhere else.
The trigger side splits into two families. Four triggers watch posts as they are published, four watch posts as they are scheduled, and each family has a version for all posts, photo posts, link posts and plain text posts. Pick the narrowest one that fits: a Link Post Published trigger saves you a filter on the post type.
What Zapier does not do here. There is no search step, so a Zap cannot look up an existing Hopscotch post before acting on it. There is no action to edit or delete a post, and the only resharing action is Retweet, which works on a Twitter account. If you compare tools, the same app has its own page on the Hopscotch Make integration, and there is also a Make vs Zapier comparison.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Seven words cover everything on this page. Each one gets a plain-English line here, and the rest of the page uses them as is.
- Zap
- The automation you build in Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is switched on, Zapier waits for that event and nothing else.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or publishes something on your behalf.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and your plan counts those.
- Instant vs polling
- An instant trigger is pushed by the app the moment the event happens. A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer set by your plan.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets a condition you set, and stops it quietly otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes it one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What a Hopscotch Zap really costs
Hopscotch is not a premium app on Zapier, so it works from the free plan. The bill is counted in tasks, and only completed actions count.
- Premium appNo, available on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
- Trigger costNone, only successful actions count
- Hopscotch triggers8 instant, 0 polling
The trigger never costs a task, and neither does Zapier listening for new posts. Each action that succeeds counts once, so a Zap that publishes on two accounts uses two tasks per run. An action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and Zaps of two steps only: add a filter or a second action and you need a paid plan. The interval grid below concerns polling triggers; all eight Hopscotch triggers are instant, so it never slows them down.
Connect your Hopscotch account to Zapier
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. A connection is your Hopscotch account linked once, then reused by every step that needs it.
- 02
Find Hopscotch and confirm
Type Hopscotch in the search box of the dialog, pick it from the results, then click Add connection. Zapier opens a new tab to sign you in to Hopscotch.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Log in with the Hopscotch account that manages your social profiles, then allow Zapier to access it. You need an account on Hopscotch, plus rights on any profile you do not own and want a Zap to post to.
Your first Zap: queue every link you publish on a second account
GoalA marketing team shares articles on its main profile. Each link post that goes live is pushed into the smart queue of a secondary profile, after a filter.
- 01
Create the Zap and pick the trigger
In the editor, choose Hopscotch as the app and Link Post Published as the event. Select your connection, then the social media account the Zap should watch.
- 02
Test the trigger
Click test: Zapier brings back the three most recent matching posts of the connected account. Pick one of them, so the next steps are mapped on a real post rather than a blank sample.
- 03
Add the filter
Add a Filter step from the plus icon. Set the field to look at, the rule and the value. A filter makes this a multi-step Zap, so it runs on a paid plan.
- 04
Add the queue action
Add Hopscotch again with Smart Queue Post. Pick the secondary account, which must differ from the one the trigger watches, then map the post text into the Text field.
- 05
Test, then publish
Run the action test once and check the post in Hopscotch. When it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on. From then on, each new link post goes through.
Hopscotch triggers in Zapier
8 events start a Zap when something happens in Hopscotch, and 8 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
Post Published
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a post is published.”
Starts your Zap whenever any post goes live on the social account you chose, whatever its format. It is the broadest of the publication triggers, the one to pick when the type of post does not matter.
Photo Post Published
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a photo post is published.”
Fires only when the post that goes live carries a photo. Text-only and link posts are ignored, so you get the visual side of your calendar without writing a filter for it.
Link Post Published
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a post containing a link is published.”
Watches for published posts that contain a link. It suits any flow that cares about the traffic you send out rather than the post itself, such as tracking which articles you promoted.
Text Post Published
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a plain text post is published.”
Reacts to plain text posts only, with no photo and no link. Handy when short updates and announcements follow a different path from your visual or promotional content.
Post Scheduled
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a post is scheduled.”
Runs as soon as a post of any kind is booked in your Hopscotch calendar, before it goes live. You can act on the plan itself: warn a reviewer, or keep a planning sheet in step.
Photo Post Scheduled
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a photo post is scheduled.”
Catches only the photo posts that land in the calendar. Useful when visuals go through an extra check, like brand guidelines or rights clearance, that text posts skip.
Link Post Scheduled
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a post containing a link is scheduled.”
Fires when a post holding a link is put on the calendar. It gives you time to check the destination of the link while the post is still waiting for its slot.
Text Post Scheduled
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a plain text post is scheduled.”
Watches the calendar for plain text posts only. It is the narrowest of the four scheduling triggers, so the Zap behind it never sees photos or links.
Hopscotch actions in Zapier
Hopscotch gives you 4 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Publish Post
ActionIn Zapier“Publish a Post to your Social Media Account.”
Puts a post live straight away on the social media account you pick, with the text you map in. No calendar slot, no queue.
Smart Queue Post
ActionIn Zapier“Smart Queue a Post to your Social Media Account.”
Drops the post into Hopscotch's smart queue for the chosen account instead of publishing it now.
Retweet
ActionIn Zapier“Retweet a Tweet with your Twitter Account.”
Reshares an existing tweet from a Twitter account connected in Hopscotch. You give it the ID or the URL of the tweet, and the account does the rest.
Schedule Post
ActionIn Zapier“Schedule a Post to your Social Media Account.”
Books a post on a social account for a date and time you pass in. The field accepts relative and readable formats, as long as the moment is in the future.
Where a Hopscotch Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Hopscotch, and no rate limit specific to the app is documented. What breaks comes from how Zaps work in general.
Four cases are worth knowing before you publish. The loop one bites hardest on a social tool, because the trigger and the action live in the same app. When a run fails, the Zapier troubleshooting guide is the next stop.
The Zap posts to the account it watches
A published trigger and a posting action on the same social account restart the Zap each time it posts. Use two different accounts, or a filter, and watch your task count.Old posts are never picked up
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you publish it. Posts already published or scheduled before that stay out; moving them is a separate job.A huge batch arrives at once
If a bulk import fills your calendar suddenly, Zapier's flood protection can hold the trigger back instead of running every post through.A required field is empty
Every posting action requires an account and a text. Map the text from a step that always fills it; a run whose action does not go through costs no task.
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