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Automate Visuals and Graphics with n8n + Placid.app (No More Canva!)
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Jun 22, 2025
Sign up with placid here - https://placid.app?ref=nznmmdc Automate your social media graphics and content creation with Placid, an alternative to Canva's enterprise API! This video explores how to use Placid for social media automation and bulk create designs. Simplify your graphic design workflow with these automation tools. š Sign Up with MAKE - https://www.make.com/en/register?pc=jsautomates š¼ Generate Midjourney Images for as low as $0.001 - https://app.all-images.ai/en/home?_by=jsautomates š” Need help with Make.com automation? I offer personalized coaching and workflow consulting to help you set up the perfect automation for your needs! š§ Email: janis@jsautomates.com š± WhatsApp: +37125340386 š Book A Meeting: https://calendly.com/jsautomates AI Automations & Coaching: https://jsautomates.com Chapters: 00:00:00 - Why Use n8n + Placid for Design Automation 00:01:00 - Placid Overview & Canva API Limitation 00:02:00 - Create & Customize Templates in Placid 00:03:45 - Building the n8n Workflow for Visual Automation 00:05:00 - Trigger Design Generation from WordPress
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hello everyone and welcome to the
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channel as many of you asked me how you
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can automate Canva design creation in
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NA10 I have decided to film this video
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and show you an alternative because to
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automate Canva in NA10 you would need an
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enterprise plan that gives you access to
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API of Canva fortunately there's an app
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called Placid that will do just that if
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you want to see more videos like this
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make sure you subscribe to the channel
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please watch the video leave a like
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button and if you have any questions
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just leave a comment i will get back to
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you so let's get into it so this is the
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Placid website um as you can see you can
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create all these kind of designs and
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they can be fully automated with your
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own text images etc of course it's a
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paid tool but you can sign up for a free
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trial i will have a link into the
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description so you can use that um yeah
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so you can create your own templates
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they have many templates built in so you
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can use those all the data here is
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variable so you can add text images and
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etc about the pricing so for $19 a month
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you get 500 credits that means you get
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500 generations canva has the same
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pricing but here you have API access so
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you can automate the process of creation
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the of these assets so I have my account
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here um I've I've created uh three
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templates one for Instagram one for
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Pinterest and one for Facebook and we're
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going to have these into our NA10
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workflow so this is a basic NIN workflow
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that I created for this video i want to
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show you these two nodes these are the
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nodes that will generate the designs
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with your assets meaning with the text
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and images so this is a simple workflow
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as soon as I publish a post on my
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WordPress uh this web hook is triggered
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and this scenario sends uh images
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and text that I want to placid uh the
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design is generated and then saved on my
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Google Drive so I will explain you how
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templates work and then we get into the
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code so you can understand how you can
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set this up and integrate into your own
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workflows so if I go here I'm just going
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to create a new template and I can
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choose from the pre-built templates or I
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can create a custom template in a custom
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size as well i'm going to use a pre
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preset template here just for the sake
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of this video so uh let's choose this
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one let's click create
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and basically this is very similar to
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Canva so you can set your own fonts for
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texts uh you can
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add overlays uh change the layer order
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etc uh this you can sign up for Placid
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and test it yourself but what is
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important here is that this text for
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example you can integrate this template
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into your workflow and you can use
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variable data here so uh let's say we're
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going to delete this um we're going to
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delete this this within my workflow I
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have a text that I want to have here so
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I will use this uh title variable and if
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I want to change the image that I see
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here I will use this image variable uh
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that's pretty convenient and pretty easy
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once you understand how this works so I
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won't save this let's remove this delete
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so this is the scenario let's go to my
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uh sample WordPress and I have here a
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draft post uh about Porsche 911s uh as
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you can see there are some images so I'm
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going to publish this post and see how
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the scenario will work let's publish it
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head to n
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so here it extracts the image file image
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urls from the code and then it sends to
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placid we just need to wait couple of
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seconds until we can get the generation
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change the image to base 64 to be
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uploaded onto Google Drive of course you
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can um implement it to be directly uh
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posted on social media but for the sake
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of this video I just wanted to show you
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how this can be done
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and I will explain also how to set these
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placid these
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uh these placid nodes if I go now to my
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Google Drive I can see uh that designs
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have been created so this one is for
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Facebook basically it takes image from
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my blog post takes the text uh of the
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title and creates this on brand visual
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or creates this visual for my social
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media the same for Pinterest and also
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the same for Instagram as well so we
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will search for HTTP node we're going to
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make an HTTP request and it's going to
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be uh let's go to back to placid and we
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can have um API tokens
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so here is REST API requests how to make
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documentation so basically we need to
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authorize with authorization bearer and
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our API key so
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let's do the authentication now um it's
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generic
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and it's going to be bearer off so
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select bearer off we're going to create
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new credential
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bearer token is
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our API key so we paste it here and we
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click save
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and we just created our um authorization
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token here in NA10 and we need to get
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URL so in the documentation under images
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uh we can see here we need to make a
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post request to endpoint this so we copy
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this
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oh yeah and you can also create PDFs and
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videos also with blessed
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uh so this is for the images but the
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same um applies to PDFs and images as
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well so we're going to send body uh
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we're going to send JSON
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and uh we're going to be using JSON
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and we can expand this so it's better
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for you to see let's head back to Placid
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documentation and here is a sample that
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you can use so we're going to copy this
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uh go back to NAN and paste the JSON
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here so let's delete these unnecessarily
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things
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so we first we need to provide template
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UD that's uh identification number so to
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get the template identification number
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we go here in uh sorry we go to
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templates
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just click on edit the template you have
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created copy the template
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code from URL
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and just replace this so the layers so
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here we have image and what we have if
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we go to our template we also have image
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here so if we want to replace this image
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we need to use the name that we have
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here so I'm going to change it to um
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replace image
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copy this the NA10
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and replace this image uh to replace
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image and here we're going to have the
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URL of the image that we will add to our
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design so the next thing that we need
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for our design to work is title so to
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change this I'm going to just change it
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so it's better for the video i replace
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title
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okay go back to N just change this
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title to replace title
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and we have also another variable that
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we can change so this is the subline
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uh we're going to rename it um replace
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subline
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like this so I'm just going to put my uh
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website domain name
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jsautomates.com
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and for now we're going to leave it like
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that
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and where does it go here let's uh
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unlink these that I had before
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and let's connect this code to the new
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one I just created
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let's save
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so I'm going to replace the image with
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image URL one here
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and the title I'm going to use from my
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web hook response uh that is the title
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of the blog post
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let's put it here and the replace
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subline will be my website uh name
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and let's execute this step so
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we need post sorry so let's execute it
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again and we have made the request
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yes
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uh then we need to add a wait node
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let's say for 10 seconds because there
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need there has to be some time while uh
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plus generates the new uh image and then
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we just going to
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add another HTTP module
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sorry node um get uh authentification
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um is um generic and we just set
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it up I think yes so let's
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uh bearer o and we have this bearer o
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account too that we just created when we
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created the first http module we just
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need to get the URL and the URL we can
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get from placid retrieve an image we
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need to use method get and it's going to
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be this UR URL with ID at the end so uh
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let me add this and
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we need to um just execute this so we
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can uh have the variable from this
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module
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let's wait
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it's done so now we can take the ID from
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the weight
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uh or ID from here from the HTTP request
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so let's pull this in here
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yes
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and let's execute the step and here we
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get the image URL
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now I'm going to execute the workflow
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head back to my WordPress and just
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publish this and it should start the
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scenario or workflow
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yep now it has been sent to plus head
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and then after 10 seconds it will pull
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the request uh to get the URL of the
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created design so let's check the design
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here
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yes as you can see it replaced the image
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replace the text and replace the subline
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this is how you can automate your design
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template creation with different
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variables from your no code automations
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in NA10 you only need two modules one is
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to send requests to plusid and the other
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module is to retrieve the creation so if
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you find this video helpful leave a like
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as well uh as I mentioned in the
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beginning you can ask me questions in
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the comment section if you need
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assistance in creating um automations
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just contact me uh I have my details in
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the description you can book a meeting
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with me etc and thank you for watching i
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hope to see you in the next video
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bye-bye
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