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About this workflow
Create and publish Instagram carousels using OpenAI gpt-image-1 and AI caption. Uses chainLlm, outputParserItemList, lmChatOpenAi, splitInBatches. Scheduled trigger; 32 nodes.
Source: https://github.com/ScraperNode/awesome-n8n-templates/blob/main/templates/ai-and-llm/7750-auto-generate-instagram-carousels-with-gpt-image-1-ai-captions-from-google-sheet/workflow.json — original creator credit. Request a take-down →