Create a post in Medium when a record is added to Airtable

■Overview

Do you find it time-consuming to manually publish content ideas and drafts managed in Airtable to Medium?
Routine tasks like this require repetitive copy-and-paste work, taking up valuable time and often leading to human errors such as data entry mistakes.
With this workflow, creating a record in Airtable automatically triggers a new post on Medium, helping streamline your content creation process.

■Who should use this template

• Anyone using Airtable as a content calendar and manually publishing posts to Medium
• Media professionals interested in automating content publishing by integrating Airtable with Medium
• Anyone managing drafts from multiple writers in Airtable and looking to streamline the publishing process

■Benefits of using this template

• Automatically create a Medium post simply by adding a record to Airtable, reducing the time spent on manual work.
• Reduce the risk of human errors, such as mistakes when copying and pasting titles or body text, helping maintain consistent post quality.

■How the flow works

1. First, connect Airtable and Medium to Yoom.
2. Next, select Airtable as the trigger and set the action to “When a record is created.”
3. Finally, select Medium as the operation, set the “Create Post” action, and map the Airtable record information retrieved by the trigger.

※“Trigger”: The action that starts the flow. “Operation”: The action that processes data within the flow after the trigger runs.

■Customization options

• In the Airtable trigger settings, configure the target base ID, table ID, and field name used to determine when the record was created.
• For the Medium post creation action, freely set fixed text or information retrieved from Airtable as variables for fields such as the title, body, and tags.

■Notes

• Connect both Airtable and Medium to Yoom.
• You can choose a trigger interval of 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes.
• Note that the shortest available trigger interval varies by plan.
• Airtable outputs can be retrieved using JSONPath. See below for instructions.
  Learn how to retrieve Airtable outputs