Penguin Pilot Zapier integrationAutomate Penguin Pilot with Zapier.
The Penguin Pilot Zapier integration gives you 0 triggers, 1 action and 0 searches. That single action, Create Post, asks Penguin Pilot for a new post whenever something happens in another app. Here is what it costs, how to set it up and what to watch.
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What the Penguin Pilot Zapier integration actually does
The Penguin Pilot Zapier integration lets another app tell Penguin Pilot to produce a post, without you opening it. Penguin Pilot is an AI content platform for text, images and video. On Zapier it only receives: something happens elsewhere, and the Zap hands Penguin Pilot the brief for a new post.
Three results you can build. A post per idea in your planning sheet: a new row in a spreadsheet starts the Zap, and Create Post turns the text of that row into the content instructions of a new post. A post for each new article: when your blog or newsletter tool publishes, the Zap passes the topic to Create Post so social copy follows without a copy-paste. A post from a form: a teammate fills a short request form, and the answers become the instructions, the tone and the length of the post.
Now the part the app page leaves out. Penguin Pilot has no trigger on Zapier, so a Zap can never start from something that happens inside Penguin Pilot, like a post being finished. There is no search step either, and no action to update or delete a post. The integration creates; everything after that stays in Penguin Pilot. If you need more than that, compare options in the Zapier alternatives before you commit.
The Zapier words, in plain English
Seven terms come back on this page. Each one is explained once, here.
- Zap
- The automation you build in Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Penguin Pilot has none, so your Zap starts in another app, like a sheet or a form.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something. Here, Create Post is the action.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Each post created through the Zap is one task.
- Polling vs instant
- Polling: Zapier checks the trigger app on a timer. Instant: that app tells Zapier itself. It depends on the app that starts your Zap.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets a condition you set, and stops the run otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action makes it one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What a Penguin Pilot Zap costs you
Penguin Pilot is not a premium app on Zapier, so it runs on the free plan. On the Zapier side, the cost is easy to follow because there is only one action.
- Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps
- One Create PostOne task, only if it succeeds
- Penguin Pilot premium?No, available on the free plan
- Zap size on freeOne trigger and one action
The trigger in the other app never costs a task, and Zapier's checks on it are free however often they run. Each Create Post that completes is one task, and one that fails is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month, so up to 100 posts created through Zapier. It also stops at two steps: a filter in front of Create Post makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. How fast the Zap starts depends on the trigger app, not on Penguin Pilot.
Connect your Penguin Pilot account in 3 steps
- 01
Open the connections page
In your Zapier account, open Apps and click + Add connection. You need a Penguin Pilot account, plus access to any content stream you do not own but want the Zap to post into.
- 02
Pick Penguin Pilot
Type Penguin Pilot in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the Penguin Pilot side so you can sign in there.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Log in to Penguin Pilot in that tab and give Zapier access to the account. The connection is saved once, and every Zap step that uses Penguin Pilot reuses it.
Your first Zap: from a planning sheet to a post
GoalEach new idea added to a planning spreadsheet becomes a post in Penguin Pilot.
- 01
Build: pick the trigger app
Create a Zap and pick the app and event that start it, here a new row in your planning sheet. Penguin Pilot has no trigger, so the start always sits in another app.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real row and not on an invented one.
- 03
Add a filter if you need one
A filter is set in three boxes: the field to look at, the rule and the value. It keeps half-written ideas out, but it makes the Zap multi-step, which requires a paid plan.
- 04
Add Create Post and map it
Add Penguin Pilot as the action app with Create Post, choose the content stream, and map the idea from the row into the content instructions. Fill every required setting.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test the Create Post step once and read what came back. Then publish the Zap to switch it on; from that point each new row that passes the filter produces a post.
The Penguin Pilot action on Zapier
Penguin Pilot gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Post
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a Post.”
This step asks Penguin Pilot for a new post in one of your content streams, written from the instructions you pass it. You also set the length, the tone and whether emojis belong in it, so each run follows the same style.
When a Penguin Pilot Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Penguin Pilot, and no limit specific to the app is documented. What breaks is what breaks on any Zap.
Four cases to know before you publish. When a run looks wrong, start with the Zapier troubleshooting page.
Old rows never become posts
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. The ideas already in your sheet before that are not picked up; turning them into posts is a separate job.A loop that eats your tasks
If a step writes back into the very place the trigger watches, the Zap sets itself off again and again, and each pass is another post and another task.A bulk import is held back
Paste hundreds of ideas into the sheet at once and the trigger returns a huge batch. Zapier's flood protection can hold that run back instead of creating every post.The same row only fires once
On a polling trigger, Zapier remembers what it has already seen, so the same row does not start the Zap twice.
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