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title: 'How to Automate Going Viral on TikTok & Instagram with Claude AI in 2026'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=XmQhu38Rmz0'
video_id: 'XmQhu38Rmz0'
date: 2026-08-10
duration_sec: 870
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# How to Automate Going Viral on TikTok & Instagram with Claude AI in 2026

> Source: [How to Automate Going Viral on TikTok & Instagram with Claude AI in 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XmQhu38Rmz0)

## Summary

This video demonstrates how to use Claude AI, combined with Metricool's MCP server and other tools, to automate the creation and scheduling of social media carousels for TikTok and Instagram. The presenter walks through setting up a Claude agent, configuring brand guidelines, generating content, and scheduling posts, culminating in a fully automated workflow.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Automation** [00:01] — The video introduces a strategy to automate content creation and scheduling for TikTok and Instagram using Claude AI, claiming it helped creators gain over 500,000 and 100,000 followers.
- **Core Method** [00:14] — The method involves using a Claude agent to create and schedule social media carousels directly from Claude, eliminating manual steps like writing prompts, formatting, and hunting for images.
- **Setup Process** [01:06] — Users need to download a file from the pinned comment, set up a Metricool account (with 30 days free access), and then configure the agent in Claude Desktop.
- **Configuration** [01:56] — The setup involves unzipping the folder, dragging it into Claude Code, and typing '/configure' to initiate the setup process, which connects the Metricool account and installs necessary tools like Playwright.
- **OAuth and Tool Installation** [03:03] — The agent walks through OAuth for Metricool, installs Playwright (to render HTML slides into PNG), and sets up Pexels for image sourcing, with user confirmation at each step.
- **Brand Setup** [04:50] — Users create a brand folder with guidelines, including audience, tone of voice, language, colors, fonts, and content guidelines (CTA, hashtags, captions), ensuring consistency in future content.
- **Content Generation** [08:03] — The agent can generate a carousel on a given topic (e.g., 'three ChatGPT hacks you didn't know about'), using Pexels for images and brand guidelines, producing an HTML preview that can be customized.
- **Captions and Hashtags** [10:30] — The agent generates captions and hashtags in the specified format, which can be reviewed and adjusted before scheduling.
- **Scheduling** [11:10] — The agent schedules the post on TikTok (or Instagram) at a specified time (e.g., 9:00 a.m. Eastern), rendering images and confirming the schedule in Metricool.
- **Full Automation** [12:19] — Users can create a skill (e.g., '/batch-carousel') that takes a list of topics and automates the entire process, allowing for bulk content creation and scheduling on a recurring basis.

### Conclusion

The video concludes that this automation strategy is powerful for creators, enabling them to maintain a consistent posting schedule with minimal manual effort, and encourages viewers to explore further automations with Metricool's MCP.

## Transcript

how to use Claude AI to automatically design, create, and schedule posts for you on TikTok and Instagram so that you could finally automate your content. In fact, this exact strategy helped this creator again over 500,000 followers and
this creator over 100,000 followers. And it's so simple that you could have this the way that we're actually going to do this is by using this Claude agent that here. Essentially, what it's going to allow you to do is it's going to allow
you to create and schedule social media carousels from Claude literally in just through exactly how this works step-by-step and then at the end, we're you how it works inside of one prompt and even how you could go through and
actually automate this. So this is incredibly powerful because creating carousels right now inside of Claude is still way too manual. You try to write the prompt, it gives you copy, you try to format it, you hunt for images, and
then you try to put it all together, and then you still have to export it and actually post it on TikTok or Instagram, but not anymore because this right here is going to allow you to do this literally with just this very simple
that you need to do is go to the pinned comment below. I have this link for you best email and you could actually download the file that we need to then actually put your email inside of there, you're going to see right here your
download is going to be on the way. It's going to be headed to your inbox and Metricool right here. Okay, now this is right here. You're going to be able to click on download agent right here. This
is now actually going to go through and this is going to give you access to this we're going to download this. Now from here, we're going to see in my downloads order to actually get this set up, it's going to be incredibly simple. We're
going to come over here and we're going to come over to Claude desktop. So now what you need to make sure you've done is you've actually unzip this folder right here. Now from here, you want to come over into Claude code by simply
just clicking on Claude code right here. We're going to get rid of this which I thing that we're going to do is we're going to come over here. We're going to drag this file over here. You're then going to type /configure.
Now what this is actually going to do is this is going to go through and this is actually going to set this up which is going to be awesome because now we've actually given it this folder right here. We're typing in /configure and now
and walk us through setting everything up. It's going to connect your Metriport account to this right here. It goes through. It has the entire Quad document skills and it pretty much knows everything that it needs to do which is
up step by step right here and if it needs you to do anything, it will you to do this." or "Hey, I need you to do that." You do exactly what's needed to go. For example, we could see that in order for us to actually do this right
five-step process right here with Metriport. We need to actually OAuth our account if we haven't. Playwright, we need to get this right here. Pexels, we need to actually update our brand and everything. So, this asks we're ready to
start. I'm going to say yes and now this is literally going to walk us through things and I'll show you it. So, the first thing that I need to actually do is I'm going to click this link right here and I'm going to OAuth my Metriport
already have an account, you get 30 days free access at the pin comment using actually done this, I'm going to come over here. I'm going to tell it that this is done. Now what we need to do is go through and actually allow this. So,
here so that this is going to be allowed to actually go through and access my found all these different things that are connected right here. So, Playwright is now the library that's actually going to render HTML slides into PNG. Then
Is it okay to install? I'm going to click okay and then this is literally going to install this for us which is crazy that this literally going through and doing all of this for us. So, now we can see that this has gone through and
this is actually installed Play It. The next thing that we see right here is, this?" And I'm going to say that we do want it to go through. So, this is going If you'd rather use your own images or text slides only, just say skip. I'm
going to say, "Go ahead and get it." And then this will go ahead and this will suggest that you do use this right here. Again, this shows us exactly how to do this. We need to just click on this link, log in, and then get our API key,
and then give it the API key. So, we can see right here once we actually click on actually access the terms and agreements. It's going to generate a key for us. Then we're going to come back over here and actually paste our key in
here. So, we can see this is now actually set up and we've now done to get started here. Just as a reminder before we actually go through setting up the brand and doing all of this, that if you go to the pin comment below, you can
get this set up right now for free with the instructions that I just showed you. you need to actually create your brand folder and your guidelines. Because this single time that it goes to create something for you, so that things stay
consistent and you continue to get good results from social media. Setting up the brand here is incredibly easy. This wants to know exactly what we actually to use Rob the AI Guy right here. This is literally going to walk us through
need to answer in order to actually get this set up. And basically what this is doing is this is creating a brand for us, so that it knows exactly what this is about. So, who the audience is, I'm going to say the audience is people
interested in new AI tools. They want to learn They want to learn about AI automations, AI news, and the latest tools. And basically this is literally going to ask us all the
folder right here, which is incredible because otherwise we would have to go manually and then output it. What is the tone of voice going to be? I'm going to say casual but informative. Now this is
questions right here, and then we'll be done actually setting up this brand and we'll be ready to move on to the next step. So next we have what kind of language right here. Obviously, I'm going to be creating content in English.
Now this wants to know what colors. I'm going to say bright green, dark green, red, black, and white. If you had hex colors, you would also be able to personally don't have that. So we can see that this went through and actually
that looks great. And then this is actually going to ask us what kind of font. I'm going to say I'm not sure and what this is going to do is actually suggest us a bunch of different fonts right here and we'll be able to choose
which one that we like the most. I'm going to go with this. I'm going to say this looks great. And what's awesome is this actually found some free fonts, which is just really awesome. Now it asks if we have a logo. Since this is a
logo. If you had a business, you might have a logo, so you could actually wants to know different content guidelines around our CTA, our hashtags, our captions. I'm going to say CTA follow for more AI news. Hashtags, let's
follow for more AI news. Hashtags, let's choose three to five ones that are large that describe the topic. And then caption length, I'm going to do four to five sentences, one sentence per line
spaced out with emojis. So basically, we just gave this our entire content brain right here and now it literally knows everything to do and it even provides us with an example. I'm going to say put the emojis
before the sentence. So I do want this adjusted slightly right here, but otherwise, this looks perfect. And what I love is that this is literally walking us through. I'm going to say confirmed, exactly what all of this is going to
look like, so that we could codify this with this agent. And when you see what we would automate with this, you're going to be mind blown. We could see creating this brand folder right here. It's running a final audit check, and
then we're going to be ready to go. So, now that this is done, we're ready to get caught to actually go through and create our content. So, actually do We're going to click on generate carousel right here, and then it wants
to know exactly what the topic is going to be. And I'm going to have it be three ChatGPT hacks you didn't know about. And now what this is actually going to do is this is going to go through and this is actually going
actually emphasize right here, I did mess up this command. I just put generate and I didn't put the dash carousel. So, this is very specific about exactly what it wants to do right here. But now, we can see that I did
off, and this is actually going to do this. This is going to use Pexels, it is going to use our brand guideline, it is going to use Metricool's MCP, and everything that it knows in order to actually create this right here. So, we
have our topic refinement right here. We have what our structure is going to look going to say approved, and now this is literally going to go off, and this is going to create this. We wanted to swap it, if we wanted to change something, if
able to adapt all of that right here, but we could see that AI is actually going through, it's searching for background images, it's building the know our brand guidelines. Next, actually going to create the carousel
actually going through and doing that. Now, just like that, this went through and this actually created this. So, we could see that it gives us an outline of automatically has actually opened up this HTML right here that's going going
right here. Now, we need to make this full screen so that we could actually see what this looks like, but this is pretty awesome right here. This is going to be three hacks you can know. If we come down here, we could see the
problem, and this literally goes through everything that it has created here, which is pretty, pretty incredible that it actually stuck to my brand guidelines like is this right here. Now, one thing that I do wish it would have done is
actually use the ChatGPT logo. So, I'm going to upload this and then tell it to see that just like that, this is actually gone through and this has actually added in the ChatGPT logo, which is awesome that it was able to do
that. So, we can customize these however you want if you're not satisfied with but I think this is perfect to match my personal brand. So, now that we have our content, we also need our captions and our hashtags. So, the next thing that we
need to get this to do is actually going to be pretty quick. We're simply just going to say, "Can you generate the hashtag and the captions for this so I can double-check it?" And then this will actually go through and this is going to
generate the hashtags and the captions in the format that we showed it how to actually do earlier, which is pretty awesome. Now, just like that, this is have our description right here. We have our hashtags. We get a proof that this
looks perfect. And then the exciting part. And now we can really tie all of this together by getting Metro Cool to actually schedule out the posts. So, now we're simply just going to say to this, "This all looks great to go.
"This all looks great to go. Please schedule this to go out at 9:00 Please schedule this to go out at 9:00 a.m. Eastern on TikTok for Wednesday, June 24th." Now, what this is going to do is this is actually going to go
through and this is going to schedule this out, which is crazy. through. This is rendering the images right here. Then it's going to schedule handle both. So, we could see that these were rendered. This is now getting
whether or not it was scheduled, we can now simply just come over here, and we that I would note right here is that I actually have this on the wrong time adjust this for New York right here, we could see now for 9:00 a.m. I have this
post scheduled out that we just did directly from inside of Cloud, which is absolutely mind-blowing that we were able to not only do all of this, but we could also get this through Metricool's MCP to actually do our research, and we
could actually create an automation that can do all of this for us. Now, I know these things step by step, but what really makes this powerful is to put all of this into one prompt to really automate things. Check this out. So, now
you're going to do. Again, the first one I would actually go through manually and you in this video so that you could kind of learn everything that actually goes into the process of automating content for TikTok and Instagram. Now, the next
"Amazing. In the future, I want to be able to give you my list of topics, and do the rest without needing any to do anything. How do we get that set up?" that is actually to create a new skill right here, where you could say {slash}
topics and the time, and it will actually go off and do that." We could say, "Yes, build that skill." And now, what this is actually going to do is this is going to go through, and this is going to build this skill for us. So,
You could do it once a week. You could do it once a month at whatever cadence you want, and tell it exactly what to do, and this will literally go off, and this will do this. And guess what? You don't only have to do this with
connected here, or maybe you have your video files connected here, you'll also be able to do this with videos, which is absolutely insane. So, we could see now actually creating exactly what this skill is going to look like. Once this
skill is actually created, we'll just be able to come in here, type in {slash}, put the name of the skill, which is going to be batch {dash} carousel, then give it the topics, what they actually are, the platform we want it uploaded
bulk, we could give it one, we could give it five, we could give it 10, we go off, and it will automate all of our content for the rest of the day, for the rest of the week, for the rest of the month, or however much content you
And the creators that are growing the fastest right now on Instagram and on strategy, and I literally just showed you how to automate this with Metricool. right here. This is all ready to go. That's all we need to do, and it will
literally go through, and it will do it for us. Now, if you enjoyed this video content automations that you can set up with Metricool's MCP, I would strongly here. I just released it the other day, and it walks you through a bunch of
other automations and the exact prompts that you could use to actually get these that you could use to actually get these set up. I'll see you over there.