Automation: what is allowed, what is forbidden, and what it is done with

A person wants to run five platforms and not sit in each of them. The answer to that has three parts: what the platform allows (limits and official interfaces), what it forbids outright (and how it defines spam), and what it is done with — the scheduling services from the catalogue, each with a deep dive.

There are no workarounds here. We do not explain how to exceed a limit or disguise a bot: a platform's prohibition we show, we do not get around it. The prohibition is printed just as large as the permission.

How much you may publish — 12 platforms

The limit is the permission: the frequency named by the platform, within which automated publishing is ordinary work.

Bluesky. Named by a number, but not in records — in points. Word for word: "The limit is 5,000 points per hour and 35,000 points per day. Points are counted as: CREATE 3 points, UPDATE 2 points, DELETE 1 point". And a direct recalculation by the platform itself: "Under this system, an… source, checked 2026-08-04

Bluesky. Named by a number: "The limit is 5,000 points per hour", which, at a price of 3 points for the creation of a record, gives, by the platform's own recalculation, "at most 1,666 records per hour". Separately for calls: "Overall API Requests (all endpoints) — Rate limited by IP — 3000 per 5 minutes" source, checked 2026-08-04

Discord. Discord does not publish a daily limit on messages. The documentation directly renounces constant numbers: "Because rate limits depend on a variety of factors and are subject to change, rate limits should not be hard coded into your app. Instead, your app should parse response… source, checked 2026-08-04

Facebook. It is not named by a number, and the platform directly refuses to name it. Word for word: "We have limits in place to prevent the abuse of our features and to protect people from spam and harassment. These limits are based on different factors, like speed and quantity. We can't… source, checked 2026-08-04

Instagram. no more than 100 posts through the API per rolling 24 hours; current usage can be queried with the separate content_publishing_limit endpoint. A prepared post that is not published within 24 hours is marked as expired source, checked 2026-07-28

Instagram. источники расходятся: For publication through programmatic access two different numbers are announced on one page. The "Rate Limit" section: "Instagram accounts are limited to 100 API-published posts within a 24-hour moving period. Carousels count as a single post." The "Create a Carousel Container"… source, checked 2026-08-04

Pinterest. There is no daily limit. Word for word: "There’s no limit to how many Pins you can create" and "There’s no limit to how many people can follow you". At the same time a limit on the number of boards does exist, but it is not named by a number: on reaching it a notification arrives and it is proposed that part of the boards be deleted source, checked 2026-08-04

Telegram. There is no hourly window; the nearest announced one is the minute window, word for word: "In a group, bots are not be able to send more than 20 messages per minute". For a single chat: "In a single chat, avoid sending more than one message per second. We may allow short bursts… source, checked 2026-08-04

Threads. no more than 250 posts through the API per rolling 24 hours per profile; a carousel counts as one post source, checked 2026-07-28

Threads. no more than 250 publications per 24 hours per profile; a carousel post counts as ONE publication source, checked 2026-07-28

Threads. Named by a number. Word for word: "Threads profiles are limited to 250 API-published posts within a 24-hour moving period. Carousels count as a single post. This limit is enforced on the POST /{threads-user-id}/threads_publish endpoint when attempting to publish a media… source, checked 2026-08-04

TikTok. For publication through programmatic access, word for word: "There is a limit on the number of posts that can be made to a creator account in a 24-hour window via Direct Post API. The upper limit may vary among creators (typically around 15 posts per day/ creator account)".… source, checked 2026-08-04

Write.as. on the free plan «Posts per day: 3 – 15 per day», on Pro and Team «Unlimited»; views are unlimited on all plans source, checked 2026-07-28

X (Twitter). It was not possible to check the daily limit on posts for an ordinary account: the help centre page "X limits" returns HTTP 403 and a robot-protection splash screen. Through programmatic access it is announced: POST /2/tweets — "Per App: 10,000/24hrs", "Per User: 100/15min" source, checked 2026-08-04

YouTube. Not named by a number. Word for word: "To ensure safety at YouTube, we limit how many videos a channel can upload in a 24-hour period across desktop, mobile, and YouTube API." "Limits may vary by country/region or channel history. Copyright strikes may impact channel history… source, checked 2026-08-04

VKontakte. VKontakte does not publish a daily limit on publications and says so directly. Word for word: "Besides restrictions on the frequency of calls, there are also quantitative restrictions on the calling of methods of the same type. We do not provide information about the exact limits" source, checked 2026-08-04

Official routes — 6 platforms

Interfaces for bots and for publishing that the platform provides itself. Where there is an official route, automation is not a grey area but a described service.

Instagram. the remaining daily allowance can be queried from the API with a separate content_publishing_limit method source, checked 2026-07-28

MAX. separate documents: rules for publishing chatbots and mini-apps, requirements for the content and functionality of applications, a model user agreement and a model privacy policy source, checked 2026-07-28

VKontakte. besides the general rules there are separate ones: for bots, for services on the VK Mini Apps platform and for store applications source, checked 2026-07-28

TamTam. an open Bot API with a published OpenAPI specification; the page states version 0.5.6 and the Apache 2.0 licence; a bot is created through @PrimeBot with no review of applications source, checked 2026-07-28

روبیکا (Rubika). a bot is created through @BotFather inside Rubika; requests are sent by POST to an address of the form botapi.rubika.ir/v3/{token}/{method} source, checked 2026-07-28

인벤 (Inven). there is no API of its own for publishing; article 17 of the agreement, «Service using an API», describes third-party APIs the platform receives data from source, checked 2026-07-28

What is forbidden outright — 13 platforms

Verbatim prohibitions on automation. Learning about them is more useful before the workflow is set up.

Goodreads. the licence does not cover commercial use, harvesting lists of books, descriptions and reviews, or the use of data mining, robots and similar extraction tools source, checked 2026-07-28

Ko-fi. collecting Ko-fi content automatically or by hand and republishing it without written consent is banned, as is framing Ko-fi on someone else's site, and interacting with the platform via bots and other automated means source, checked 2026-07-28

Krisha. posting listings by automated upload through unauthorised applications and third-party resources that have not been vetted by the administration is banned; automated upload is available only to the administration source, checked 2026-07-28

Lazada. any automated systems, including "robots" and "spiders", are banned for uploading and transmitting files and for accessing parts of the platform that are not permitted source, checked 2026-07-28

LinkedIn. forbidden to develop and use «software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Services» source, checked 2026-07-28

Qiita. scraping Qiita is not permitted: the platform cites concerns about increased server load source, checked 2026-07-28

Rooter. it is prohibited to interfere with the platform's operation, to access its non-public areas, to deploy bots, to collect user data by scraping, and to probe and scan its systems and protective measures; referral to law enforcement is possible source, checked 2026-07-28

Stocktwits. accounts with signs of automation — copy-paste spam, mass posting, scripted behaviour — are banned permanently source, checked 2026-07-28

Tinder. using a robot, crawler, retrieval-and-extraction application, proxy or any other manual or automatic device to access, extract, index or «data mine» is prohibited; third-party apps for unlocking features are prohibited source, checked 2026-07-28

Tumblr. an outright ban: do not register accounts or publish content automatically, systematically or programmatically source, checked 2026-07-28

X (Twitter). «crawling or scraping the Services in any form, for any purpose without our prior written consent is expressly prohibited»; access is permitted only through the published interfaces source, checked 2026-07-28

حراج (Haraj). the terms of use prohibit use of the service by any non-human user; the exception is the robots of Google, Facebook and Twitter source, checked 2026-07-28

네이버 밴드 (Naver Band). «mechanical activity» and circumventing the service's technical protection measures are grounds for immediate permanent deletion of the account without compensation for purchased benefits source, checked 2026-07-28

How platforms define spam — 8

Automation is most often forbidden not by the word «bot» but by the definition of spam: mass sending plus being unsolicited. Those definitions are the working boundary.

Bitbucket. Atlassian's acceptable use policy prohibits chain letters and spam, approaching users of the services for commercial purposes without express permission from Atlassian, and promoting or advertising someone else's goods and services without proper authorisation source, checked 2026-07-28

mixi. spam is defined as: publishing or sending identical and similar texts, listing words unrelated to the place of publication, excessively long texts and repeated identical links source, checked 2026-07-28

Stack Overflow. the company defines spam as "unwanted and unsolicited advertising or promotion that disrupts the question-and-answer experience"; the filter compares a new post with recently deleted ones and has cut the lifetime of spam on the platform by 50% source, checked 2026-07-28

WordPress.com. spam is taken to include sites created mainly to drive traffic to outside resources, to inflate SEO, for phishing or for affiliate marketing, as well as sending unsolicited emails about your site source, checked 2026-07-28

Zenn. publishing automatically generated texts and republishing the same content are named as spam outright source, checked 2026-07-28

Diesel Forum. clause 30 of the rules: spam is unsolicited mass messaging; violators are blocked immediately, regardless of the number of warnings; the rules extend to private messages as well source, checked 2026-07-28

Odnoklassniki. spam is taken to mean mass actions for sending advertising messages, fraudulent offers, links to malicious sites, messages and posts duplicated many times, posts unrelated to the group's subject and material that «carries no particular value for the user» source, checked 2026-07-28

TamTam. spam is defined as mass sending of messages, including advertising ones, to users who have not expressed interest in receiving them; promotion by promising gifts, by «botnets» and by spam mechanisms is forbidden, as is the use of any programs and automated scripts to collect information and… source, checked 2026-07-28

What it is done with — 40 services

Scheduling and automation services from the catalogue; for each we know which platforms it works with, from its own pages. Each has a deep dive.

Activepieces. Bluesky, Discord, Facebook Leads, Facebook Pages, Instagram for Business, Line Bot, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Matrix, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Telegram Bot, Twitch, Twitter, WhatsApp Business, YouTube source, checked 2026-07-28

Agorapulse. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Threads, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky, Reddit, Google Business Profile source, checked 2026-07-28

Albato. Facebook, Facebook Pages, Facebook audience, Instagram for Business, LINE, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Reddit Ads, Telegram, Twitter (X), Viber, WhatsApp Business API, YouTube source, checked 2026-07-28

ApiX-Drive. Discord, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Slack, Telegram, TikTok, Twitter, Viber, YouTube source, checked 2026-07-28

BotHelp. WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Viber — «We support WhatsApp*, Instagram*, Facebook Messenger*, Telegram and Viber» source, checked 2026-07-28

Buffer. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), YouTube, Threads, Pinterest, Google Business Profile, Bluesky, Mastodon source, checked 2026-07-28

Chatfuel. Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp automations source, checked 2026-07-28

ContentStudio. Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Bluesky, Threads, Google Business Profile, Telegram, Tumblr source, checked 2026-07-28

CoSchedule. Bluesky, Facebook Pages, Google Business Profile, Instagram Business and Creator, LinkedIn Pages and Profiles, Mastodon, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, Twitter/X, YouTube Shorts source, checked 2026-07-28

eClincher. Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, LinkedIn, Google Business, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Bluesky, WordPress, Gmail, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Bing, OpenAI, Grok, xAI, Salesforce, Service Now, Zendesk, Tripadvisor, Trustpilot, Google… source, checked 2026-07-28

Hootsuite. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, WhatsApp source, checked 2026-07-27

IFTTT. Arattai, Bitly, Bluesky, Buffer, BulkPublish, CodeQR - Link and QR Analytics, Discord, Disqus, dondeEsta Family, Facebook, Facebook Pages, Fleep, Foursquare, GroupMe, Hopscotch Social Media Management, Instagram, Inventor, LINE, LinkedIn… source, checked 2026-07-28

Kontentino. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Google Business Profile, Pinterest, Threads, Youtube source, checked 2026-07-28

Latenode. 5,500+ integrations across 1,200+ apps and LLMs source, checked 2026-07-28

Later. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Snapchat source, checked 2026-07-28

Loomly. Zapier, Microsoft Teams, Slack (Workflow Integrations); Canva, Giphy, Google Drive, Unsplash (Content Creation) source, checked 2026-07-28

Metricool. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, X / Twitter, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, Twitch, Google Business Profile source, checked 2026-07-28

Missinglettr. Twitter, Facebook (Pages and Groups), Instagram, LinkedIn (Personal and Company feeds) and Google My Business source, checked 2026-07-28

n8n. Gmail, Slack, Telegram, Discord, Send Email, Telegram Trigger, Email Trigger (IMAP), Mautic, Pushover, SendGrid, ClickUp, Twilio, Gmail Trigger, Microsoft Outlook, MQTT Trigger, Mattermost, Typeform Trigger, ClickUp Trigger, MQTT, WhatsApp… source, checked 2026-07-28

NapoleonCat. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Google My Business source, checked 2026-07-28

Onlypult. Instagram Business, Instagram Login, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Pinterest, Telegram, VKontakte, Bluesky, WordPress, Google Business Profile, Odnoklassniki, Tumblr source, checked 2026-07-28

Pabbly Connect. BlueSky, Discord, Discord (Legacy), Facebook Ads, Facebook Ads Insights, Facebook Comments, Facebook Conversions, Facebook Custom Audience, Facebook Lead Ads, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Offline Conversions, Facebook Pages, Instagram for… source, checked 2026-07-28

Pallyy. Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Google My Business, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky source, checked 2026-07-28

Planable. Facebook, Google Business Profile, TikTok, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Linkedin, Threads, X (Twitter) source, checked 2026-07-28

Post Planner. Facebook, Instagram, Google Business, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, Twitter/X, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky source, checked 2026-07-28

Postoplan. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, Telegram, Slack, Google My Business source, checked 2026-07-28

Publer. Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok, Google Business Profile, WordPress, Telegram, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky source, checked 2026-07-27

PuzzleBot. Telegram, MAX source, checked 2026-07-28

Salebot. MAX, Telegram, Avito, Discord, TikTok, Cian, Viber, Vkontakte source, checked 2026-07-28

Sendible. Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads, Google Business Profile source, checked 2026-07-28

SendPulse. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, Viber, Live chat source, checked 2026-07-28

SocialBee. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, YouTube, Pinterest, Bluesky, Google Business Profile source, checked 2026-07-27

SocialPilot. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Linkedin, Threads, Youtube, Pinterest, Google Business, Bluesky source, checked 2026-07-28

Sprinklr. Subreddit, Snapchat Business, Sina Weibo, Facebook Page, Instagram, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Company, Pinterest, TikTok Business Account, X, YouTube, Threads source, checked 2026-07-28

Statusbrew. Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, WhatsApp, X (Formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, Bluesky, YouTube, Google Business Profile, Pinterest, Line source, checked 2026-07-28

Tray.ai. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, TikTok Shop source, checked 2026-07-28

Vista Social. Bluesky, Facebook, Google Business, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Tumblr, X (ex. Twitter), YouTube source, checked 2026-07-28

Workato. Discord, Facebook, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Page Management, Facebook Lead Ads, Instagram, LINE, LinkedIn, Reddit, Slack, Telegram, Tiktok Shop, WhatsApp Business Cloud API, X, YouTube source, checked 2026-07-28

Zapier. Facebook Pages, Instagram for Business, LinkedIn, Feedly, Pinterest, Ko-fi, Bluesky, Publer, Reddit, Bettermode, Discourse, SocialBee, Communi App, StockTwits, Pillar, Dribbble, Bluesky by Unshape, Ning, Honeycommb, Pop.store, Social… source, checked 2026-07-28

Zoho Social. Facebook, X (vormals Twitter), TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google Business-Profil, Pinterest, Mastodon, Threads source, checked 2026-07-28

How to read the boundary

The official route is the only reliable one. Where a platform gives an API or rules for bots, the conditions are named; where it does not, the service works on trust, and it is you who takes the risk, not the service. 2. A limit is not a recommendation. The named frequency is the boundary beyond which the platform itself decides that you are spam. 3. A platform's silence is not permission. If nothing is said about automation, that means «nothing is said», and the definition of spam still applies.

On method. Every line comes from a document of the platform or tool itself. Fields about robot access to sites (robots.txt) are not included here: that is a question about us, not about you.