Exporting a post by hand
One button, one sheet, one folder per post, with the images, the captions and a calendar file.
Updated Aug 14, 20262 min readApplies to 1.1.5
Share, Instagram, Export Posts in the top bar. One export button, and it opens a batch sheet. Individual posts don't carry their own export button.
The sheet
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| PLATFORM | Instagram, Pinterest, or All Platforms |
| SHOW | Upcoming, which is the default, or All, which reveals overdue posts |
| Include .ics Calendar File | A switch, off by default |
| The list | Every scheduled post that matches, single images and carousels together, sorted by date, each with a checkbox |
Select all and Select none sit above the list with a live count. Everything visible is ticked when the sheet opens, and re-ticked whenever you change the platform or the Upcoming filter. Press Export N Posts and we ask for a destination folder.
What you get
One folder per post, named yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm_ClientName, with _carousel on
the end if it's one. What goes inside depends on which kind it is.
A single image gets the original file copied in verbatim, in whatever format
it already was. We don't re-render or convert it. Alongside it sits a
caption.txt divided into the sections that have content:
--- INSTAGRAM --- · --- PINTEREST --- · --- SUBSTACK IDEAS --- ·
--- HASHTAGS ---
A carousel gets every slide rendered fresh as a full-quality JPEG, named
from the project title, something_slide_01.jpg and up. Its caption.txt is
different: two sections, --- CAPTION --- and --- CAROUSEL INFO ---, and the
info block lists the title, the slide count, the platform and the scheduled
time.
If you left the calendar switch on, we write one combined
les_archives_schedule.ics at the destination you chose, holding an event for
every post in the run. It isn't one file per folder.
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