Visual no-code workflows that ship to every platform SociaHive supports.

n8n is the self-hostable, open-source automation tool that ate the Zapier audience for teams that wanted control. SociaHive plugs in via the HTTP Request node today (and partial MCP as n8n's protocol support matures) — same authenticated API key, same 35 tools, but now wrapped in a visual canvas where your ops team can see exactly what fires when. Schedule a single workflow that posts to Instagram and LinkedIn from a Google Sheets row, or route every hot DM lead from WhatsApp into a Slack channel with the conversation snippet attached.

Why pair n8n with SociaHive

Add SociaHive as an HTTP Request node in n8n

n8n's MCP support is partial — for full coverage, use the HTTP Request node against SociaHive's MCP JSON-RPC endpoint. Save the node as a template once and copy it into new workflows.

# Node type: HTTP Request

Method:        POST
URL:           https://sociahive.com/api/mcp
Authentication: Generic Credential Type → Header Auth
                Name: X-API-Key
                Value: sk_your_key_here

Headers:
  Content-Type: application/json
  Accept: application/json, text/event-stream

Body (JSON):
  {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "tools/call",
    "params": {
      "name": "{{ $json.toolName }}",
      "arguments": {{ $json.toolArgs }}
    }
  }

A real workflow: weekly cross-platform digest from a Google Sheet

Every Monday 9am, n8n pulls last week's planned content from a Google Sheet, posts each row to the right platform via SociaHive, and sends the team a Slack confirmation with scheduled IDs and the dashboard link to review.

1. 1Trigger: Schedule node fires every Monday at 09:00 in your timezone.
2. 2Google Sheets node reads the 'Week of YYYY-MM-DD' tab — columns: Day, Time, Platform, Caption, Media URL, Account ID.
3. 3Loop over rows: for each, an HTTP Request node calls SociaHive create_post with the platform-appropriate payload (LinkedIn longform, Twitter short, Instagram with first-comment hashtags).
4. 4Aggregate scheduled post IDs into a single Slack message: 'Week scheduled — 12 posts across LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads. Review: https://sociahive.com/dashboard/content-scheduler'.
5. 5If any create_post fails, route to an error branch that opens a SociaHive support ticket via the same HTTP Request pattern and pings the on-call channel.

{
  "name": "Monday content drop — multi-platform",
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "Schedule",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger",
      "parameters": { "rule": { "cronExpression": "0 9 * * 1" } }
    },
    {
      "name": "Read week sheet",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleSheets",
      "parameters": {
        "operation": "read",
        "sheetId": "{{ $env.WEEKLY_SHEET_ID }}"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Schedule on SociaHive",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "parameters": {
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://sociahive.com/api/mcp",
        "authentication": "headerAuth",
        "jsonBody": {
          "jsonrpc": "2.0",
          "id": "={{ $itemIndex }}",
          "method": "tools/call",
          "params": {
            "name": "create_post",
            "arguments": {
              "platform": "={{ $json.Platform }}",
              "accountId": "={{ $json.AccountID }}",
              "caption": "={{ $json.Caption }}",
              "mediaUrl": "={{ $json.MediaURL }}",
              "scheduledAt": "={{ $json.Day }}T{{ $json.Time }}:00Z"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Notify Slack",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.slack",
      "parameters": { "channel": "#social", "text": "Week scheduled..." }
    }
  ]
}

What You Can Do with n8n + SociaHive

• ✓Visual workflows you can read at a glance — no buried config, no opaque triggers
• ✓Self-host on your infrastructure — keeps API keys and lead data inside your perimeter
• ✓Cron-style scheduled workflows — daily content drops, weekly analytics digests
• ✓Bridge SociaHive to anything: 400+ n8n nodes plus the HTTP Request escape hatch

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