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title: 'How to Automate Instagram Carousels with AI'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=QyS_JG1vbpc'
video_id: 'QyS_JG1vbpc'
date: 2026-08-12
duration_sec: 923
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# How to Automate Instagram Carousels with AI

> Source: [How to Automate Instagram Carousels with AI](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QyS_JG1vbpc)

## Summary

The video demonstrates how to automate Instagram carousel creation using Quad's new integration with Metricool MCP. The presenter walks through a step-by-step setup and shows how to generate and schedule content with a single prompt.

### Key Points

- **Carousels Drive Growth** [00:25] — Carousels are a popular format for growth. Dr. Jones gained over 100,000 followers in a few months by posting carousels, which can be automated with Quad.
- **Three-Step Setup** [01:32] — Process has three steps: Configure, Generate, Publish. Download a file from the provided link, unzip, and place in Claude Code.
- **Configuration with /configure** [02:40] — Run '/configure' in Claude Code to auto-setup. It guides through connecting Metricool, installing Playwright, and setting up Pexels. Use code 'robber' for 30 days free Metricool access.
- **Brand Setup for Consistency** [05:28] — Setup includes defining brand details: display name, audience, tone, language, colors, fonts, logo, and content guidelines (CTA, hashtags, caption length, emojis). This ensures consistent AI-generated content.
- **One-Shot Automation** [08:42] — After setup, a single prompt like 'Generate a carousel...' can create and schedule content. Example: 'Five stability hacks' scheduled for 9 AM on July 11th. The AI handles research, design, and scheduling.
- **Three Favorite Automations** [11:19] — Three favorite automations: (1) Daily social media audit via Metricool MCP, (2) Content suggestions based on audience pain points from Reddit, forums, etc., (3) Daily news-based content ideas for multiple posts.

## Transcript

Quad just got a brand new upgrade that now makes it possible for you to be able to automate your growth and you getting followers on Instagram using Quad. In fact, this means just how this creator, this creator, and this creator skyrocket their growth.
Because now you can have Quad actually create and schedule your content for you, research your content, and so much more. By the end of this video, you're going to know exactly how to set this up, how to automate this, and I'm going to share with you my three favorite ways to actually use this.
Okay, so if we actually look at people that are blowing up on Instagram, you're going to notice they're posting tons of carousels. For example, if we look at Dr. Jones right here, he's blowing up. And literally, like the last few months, he's gained over 100,000 followers.
And as you can see, one of his pinned posts right here is this carousel. And guess what? He has it pinned here because it's going viral like crazy. And if we go through the rest of his content, we'll see that he's posting carousels all the time. And the reason that he's doing that is because it frees him up to post other things and focus on other things.
but in addition to that, they can be automated with Quad, and it's one of the easiest ways in order to get followers right now. In fact, there are entire pages that are nothing but carousel content, and this video is literally going to show you how to automate that.
So the way that you're going to do this is you can now actually create and schedule social media carousels from Quad, literally in just three commands. Here's kind of a high level of what it actually looks like right here. I'm going to walk you through exactly how to set this up.
So you get this set up right here, then you're actually able to put in prompts like this, And this goes through and literally schedules it out for you on Metricool. And it's going to be posted to your Instagram at the best time, on the best days, all of that.
And guess what? This will be done without you lifting a finger, all from inside of Quad. And the whole process is literally broken down into this three steps. So first, we're going to have to actually go through and configure. This is going to take a few minutes.
Then you'll be able to generate. Then you'll be able to publish all directly from inside Quad. The first thing that you need to do is go to the pinned comment below. I have this link for you immediately so you can put in your best email and you can actually download the file that we need to then put inside of Cloud.
So once you actually put your email inside of there, you're going to see right here the download is going to be on the way. It's going to be headed to your inbox and you're going to be able to get set up on Metricool right here. Okay, now this is the email that you're going to get sent 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 file. So we're going to come over here. We're going to download this. Now from here, we're going to see in my downloads that I have this right here.
Now in 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 Cloud Desktop. So now what you need to make sure you've done it is you've actually unzipped this folder right here. Now from here, you want to come over into Cloud Code by simply just clicking on Cloud Code right here.
We're going to get rid of this, which I currently have up here. And the next thing that we're going to do, we're going to come over here. We're going to drag this file over here. You're then going to type slash 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 slash configure. Now, this is literally going to go through and walk us through setting everything up.
It's going to connect your Metricool account to this right here. It goes through. It has the entire quad document in here. It knows how to run these skills. It pretty much knows everything that it needs to do, which is pretty awesome. It's going to get it set up step by step right here.
And if it needs you to do anything, it will literally just tell you, hey, I need you to do this. Or hey, I need you to do that. You do exactly what's needed and then this is going to be all ready to go. For example, we could see that in order for us to actually do this right here, we need to go through this five-step process right here with Metricool.
We need to actually owe off our account. If we haven't, Playwright, we need to get this right here. Pexels, we need to get this right here. And then we need to actually update our brand and everything. So this asks, we're ready to start.
I'm going to say yes. Now this is literally going to walk us through step by step each and every one of these things and I show you it So the first thing that I need to actually do is I going to click this link right here and I going to owe off my MetroCool account
By the way, if you don't already have an account, you get 30 days free access at the pink comment using code Robert. Okay, so now that I've 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 I'm going to click on Always Allow right here so that this is going to be allowed to actually go through and access my Metricool and we could see that it's found all these different things that are connected right here. So Playwright is now the library that's actually going to render
our HTML slides into PNG. Then this is going to go through and do this. 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 is literally going through and doing all this for us. So now we can see that this has gone
through and this has actually installed Playwright. The next thing that we see right here is do you want me to automatically fetch this and I'm going to say that we do want to go through so it's going to be free it could search for images throughout 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 actually use this I would strongly suggest that you do use this right here and again this shows us exactly how to
do this we need to just click on this link login and then get our API key and then give it the API key so we could see right here once we actually click on this we just have to go through and 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 you can see this is now actually set up and we've now done everything that we need to do in order to get started here just as a reminder before we actually go through setting up the brand and doing
all 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 now this next step is incredibly important because without it quad is just going to create any random content every time you go to actually create content. So if you want it to be consistent
and you want it to be on brand, don't skip this next step. Setting up the brand here is incredibly easy. This wants to know exactly what we actually want to do. So display name, I'm going to use Rob the AI guy right here. This is literally going to walk us through all the different questions that
we 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 about AI automations, AI news, and the latest tools. Basically, this is literally going to ask us all the questions we need to set up this brand folder right here,
which is incredible because otherwise we would have to go through and figure out all this stuff manually and then upload it. What is the tone of voice going to be? I'm going to say casual but informative. Now this is going to go through, ask a few more questions right here, 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 actually give it the hex code, but I personally don't have that.
that this one actually found us for us. I'm going to say yes, 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 personal
page I don't actually have a logo. If you're in a business you might have a logo so you You can actually upload your logo here. And now this wants to know different content guidelines. We on our CTA our hashtags our captions I going to say CCA follow for more AI news Hashtags let choose three to five ones that are large
Let's 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 this is going to look like so that we can codify this with this agent. And when you see what we're able to automate with this, you're going to be mind blown.
You can see this is now going through and actually creating this brand folder right here. It's running a final audit check, and then we're going to be ready to go. Now, I know we went through and did this step-by-step, but I also want to show you how you could automate all this in one shot.
I thought it was a good example to go through step-by-step so you could actually see everything that's getting done, but true automation comes from doing this in one step. And so now what's actually possible, since we have all this set up, is we could simply come over here and say something like this.
Generate a carousel with the following details. The topic is going to be five stable five hacks you didn't know about. Create the carousel, the caption, the hashtags, and schedule it for 9 a.m. July 11th. Now we can actually come over here, give this to Quad Code right here,
and this is going to be able to handle this because it has all the skills, it has our branding, it literally has everything that we have given it and knows exactly how I like self-created. So we can see that the first thing it's doing is seeing what things are actually connected right here.
So it's going to actually format the carousel correctly. It's going through and actually using these tools in order to call that. Now we can see that this has actually gone through and this has figured out exactly what page they should actually do this on. We can see that because I did this in a new chat, it says that we
have a blocker, but I just told it, hey, you should be able to do it like this, and then it understood, oh, that's right. So if you're doing this inside of a new chat, you may see little hiccups like that, but it's not a huge deal. You just remind it, hey, you can actually do it this way, and it'll
automatically be able to go through and figure that out, which we can see right here. Now it's going through to check any public details on table five, so the hacks are actually grounded in real verified information, and then it's going to build us an outline. It's actually going to build this
out and it's going to schedule it for us. And again, literally all this is done with one prompt. And if you wanted to, you could schedule this out so that this happens automatically without us actually even having to prompt this. Now we can see that this has actually gone through and
this has created this right here. Now, one thing that I would note is I actually told this that I like my brand to be similar to Trash UT. So we'll just have to swap that out quickly and get this updated so that it looks like quad. I personally probably should have put that in the original
So I'm simply just going to come back over here and I'm going to say make the branding more similar to Claude and then schedule it. Now this is really going to go through and this is going to do this, which is incredible. I didn't have to open up Photoshop. I didn't have to open up Canva.
I literally didn't have to do anything. I'm just prompting Claude right here and we can automate this entire process. This makes it incredibly easy to make a week's worth, a month's worth, or even longer for content.
You can see now going through and fixing the hard-coded text you matched, the new palette right here, and Carousel's going to look completely different. Now we can see that just like that, all of this is getting changed. It's now Claude's colors right here, and now just like that,
we can see that this is all ready to go. This is ready to be scheduled, and again, I didn't have to lift a finger in order to do this. Claude did all of this. Absolutely incredible. Now before I show you my three favorite ways to use this, I wanted to remind you that you
can go to the pinned comment below and get started with Metricool's MCP today, because if you use code robber when you sign up for Metricool you're gonna get 30 days free access to any of their premium plans Now the first automation that I want to show you here is this prompt right here So using the Metricool MCP can you please perform an audit of all my social media platforms that I connected I want to know what I should improve on each of them to actually increase
my growth. Now this goes through a snapshot of all my content right here that was in the poll through Metricool. And we could see Instagram is flat right here. It goes through exactly what we need to fix by highlighting the best time for me to actually post, the peak days that I should post.
And this also goes through what kind of content I need to focus on and what things I need to focus on. Because right now, clearly I'm not focusing on the right stuff on Instagram. When it comes to Facebook, we have our strongest performer, but inconsistent right here.
This goes through how to actually fix this right here. TikTok goes through our biggest problem and how to fix it. The same thing on YouTube right here, which is absolutely incredible. And again, you can get this to be automated simply by just saying to this,
Great. Can you now schedule this out to happen every day at 9 a.m.? Now, what this is going to do is this is going to go through, and this is actually going to pull my analytics using Metricool every day
and schedule this out so that this happens. So this goes through, and it says, what do we actually want done? I'm going to say rerun this audit daily right here. Now, this is going to go through and actually set this up. Now, the next automation that I have set up that I want to show you is going to be this right here.
I am in the AI news niche on Instagram. Can you please find what my audience's biggest pain points are with ChatGVT, Grok, Claude, and Google Gemini? And then from there, please suggest my next two weeks of content. So this went through.
This found everything about Grok, found everything about Gemini, found everything about Claude, found all the different pain points right here. And this actually goes through what our audience is currently frustrated with. And this is pulled from Reddit, forums, lawsuits, and news coverage.
And this goes through and tells us everything they're mad about with ChatGVT, everything they're mad about with Croc, everything they're mad about with Google Gemini, everything that they're mad about with Quad. And now guess what we can actually do? This goes through and gives us our next two weeks of content right here.
And if we wanted to transform this even more, we could say, great, I want to be able to automate this with Metricool's MCP. Please give me the prompts that I need to give to it
in order to have it create a carousel for each of these. I need the topic, what they should look like, what time and day they should be posted.
And now what this is actually going to do is literally give us everything that we need to then input into quad in order to get it to automate things like I showed you earlier in the video. And now this will actually go through and give us exactly what we can create here.
We have the day, we have the date, we have the time, we have the topic, the design brief right here, and the caption description, which we can then feed to Metricool, and it will literally handle the rest and automate getting all of this out. And the final thing is we could also say something like this.
How many AI news niche on Instagram can you get the biggest news from the last 24 hours for Chats, Yippee, Teak, Rock, Quad, and Google Gemini? From there, write me content ideas for today. I want to be able to put out three carousel posts and three video posts.
So now this goes through, pulls all the latest updates from the last 24 hours right here, goes through all of our different content ideas, goes through all of our different video ideas, and again, we can now use this powered with Metricool's agent that can now go through
and actually create the carousel content for us. And the other thing that's cool is you can also hook Claude up to other tools that can create video content, and then guess what you can get them to do? You can actually get them to go through and create a bunch of different video content directly from here,
and then you could also schedule that out to your metric pool. Now, if you enjoyed this video and you want to see another video that walks you through how you could also use this to automate content across even more platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and more, I would strongly suggest
you check out this video right here that walks you through exactly how that works. If that sounds interesting, I'll see you over there.