Automate Google My Business with Grok Bot

Publish business updates, promote events, share offers with coupon codes, and add call-to-action buttons — all from the command line or through your AI agent to boost local SEO.

Setup Guide Marketplace

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Post to Google My Business in Seconds

Grok Bot

# In any Bot chat, add the Postiz plugin
/add-plugin postiz

# Store POSTIZ_API_KEY as a Bot secret when prompted.
# Your Bot can now run Postiz on its cloud computer:

# Find your Google My Business integration
postiz integrations:list

# Create a business update post
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Visit us today! We have exciting new products in store." \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"topicType":"STANDARD","callToActionType":"LEARN_MORE","callToActionUrl":"https://example.com"}' \
  -i "your-gmb-integration-id"

Google My Business Features

📣

Business Posts

Publish standard business updates that appear on your Google Business Profile. Keep customers informed about news, products, and services.

📅

Event Promotion

Create event posts with title, start and end dates, and times. Promote workshops, sales events, grand openings, and more.

🏷️

Offers & Coupons

Share special offers with coupon codes, redemption URLs, and terms. Drive foot traffic with exclusive deals and promotions.

🔗

Call-to-Action Buttons

Add CTA buttons like Book, Order, Shop, Learn More, Sign Up, Get Offer, or Call. Drive customer actions directly from your posts.

📍

Local SEO Boost

Regular Google My Business posts improve your local search ranking. Stay active and visible in Google Maps and local search results.

⏰

Scheduled Posting

Schedule posts with precise timestamps. Plan your business updates ahead of time and maintain consistent posting frequency.

How It Works

Find Your GMB Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Google My Business integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Google My Business
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="gmb")'

# Get GMB settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <gmb-id>

Choose Your Post Type

Select the type of post: STANDARD for general updates, EVENT for promoting events with dates and times, or OFFER for sharing deals with coupon codes.

Configuration

# Standard business update
echo '{"topicType": "STANDARD"}'

# Event with dates
echo '{
  "topicType": "EVENT",
  "eventTitle": "Grand Opening",
  "eventStartDate": "2025-03-15",
  "eventEndDate": "2025-03-15",
  "eventStartTime": "10:00",
  "eventEndTime": "18:00"
}'

# Offer with coupon
echo '{
  "topicType": "OFFER",
  "offerCouponCode": "SAVE20",
  "offerRedeemUrl": "https://example.com",
  "offerTerms": "Valid until March 31"
}'

Create Your Post

Schedule a Google My Business post with your content, post type, and optional CTA button. Posts appear on your Business Profile in Google Search and Maps.

Post Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Spring sale is here! 20% off all items this weekend." \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "topicType": "OFFER",
    "callToActionType": "GET_OFFER",
    "callToActionUrl": "https://example.com/sale",
    "offerCouponCode": "SPRING20",
    "offerRedeemUrl": "https://example.com/redeem",
    "offerTerms": "Valid March 1-3, 2025"
  }' \
  -i "gmb-id"

Google My Business Settings Reference

Every Google My Business post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "gmb"
`topicType`	string	No	Post type: STANDARD, EVENT, or OFFER
`callToActionType`	string	No	CTA button: NONE, BOOK, ORDER, SHOP, LEARN_MORE, SIGN_UP, GET_OFFER, CALL
`callToActionUrl`	string	No	URL for the call-to-action button
`eventTitle`	string	No	Event name (required when topicType is EVENT)
`eventStartDate`	string	No	Event start date in YYYY-MM-DD format
`eventEndDate`	string	No	Event end date in YYYY-MM-DD format
`eventStartTime`	string	No	Event start time in HH:MM format
`eventEndTime`	string	No	Event end time in HH:MM format
`offerCouponCode`	string	No	Coupon code for offer posts
`offerRedeemUrl`	string	No	URL where customers can redeem the offer
`offerTerms`	string	No	Terms and conditions for the offer

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Google My Business posting scenarios.

Standard Update with Learn More CTA

settings.json

{
  "topicType": "STANDARD",
  "callToActionType": "LEARN_MORE",
  "callToActionUrl": "https://example.com/about"
}

Event Post with Full Details

settings.json

{
  "topicType": "EVENT",
  "eventTitle": "Weekend Workshop: Getting Started",
  "eventStartDate": "2025-03-15",
  "eventEndDate": "2025-03-16",
  "eventStartTime": "10:00",
  "eventEndTime": "16:00",
  "callToActionType": "BOOK",
  "callToActionUrl": "https://example.com/book"
}

Offer with Coupon Code

settings.json

{
  "topicType": "OFFER",
  "callToActionType": "GET_OFFER",
  "callToActionUrl": "https://example.com/deal",
  "offerCouponCode": "SAVE20",
  "offerRedeemUrl": "https://example.com/redeem",
  "offerTerms": "Valid for new customers only. Expires March 31, 2025."
}

Simple Update with Call Button

settings.json

{
  "topicType": "STANDARD",
  "callToActionType": "CALL"
}

What is Grok Bot?

Grok Bot is the always-on AI teammate product from xAI and Cursor. You create named Bots, give each one a job, and they work 24/7 on their own persistent cloud computer — with a browser, a filesystem, and a terminal — pinging you only when they need approval.

Grok Bot is not the Grok chatbot. Grok is the assistant you chat with on X and grok.com. Grok Bot is a separate app for delegating real, multi-step work — like running your Google My Business presence with Postiz.

💻

Own Cloud Computer

Every Bot gets a persistent cloud machine with a terminal. Postiz runs there, so your Google My Business posts go out even when your laptop is closed.

🔁

Routines

Turn any task into a routine that runs on a schedule. Your Bot drafts, schedules, and reports on Google My Business content without being asked twice.

🛡️

Approvals Built In

Bots ask before changing external systems. Review the Google My Business posts your Bot prepared in Postiz, approve, and it publishes.

How Postiz Works with Grok Bot

Postiz is listed on the Grok Bot plugin marketplace. Add it to a Bot and the Postiz skill, CLI, and command reference are installed on its cloud computer — the Bot can then manage your Google My Business workflow on its own.

✓Type /add-plugin postiz in a Bot chat, or add it from the Plugins sidebar
✓Store your POSTIZ_API_KEY as a Bot secret when prompted
✓The Bot reads the bundled SKILL.md and learns every Postiz command
✓Works in every Bot on your shared workspace, on desktop and iPhone
✓Approvals keep a human in the loop before anything is published

Grok Bot

# 1. Add the plugin to your Bot
/add-plugin postiz

# 2. Store your Postiz API key
#    as a secret when prompted

# 3. Ask your Bot to verify
You: Find my Google My Business channel in Postiz

Bot: Running postiz integrations:list
  Found your Google My Business integration.
  All Postiz commands are ready.

Google My Business Posting with Grok Bot

Your Bot reads the Postiz skill, discovers your Google My Business integration, and handles the entire posting workflow — from content creation to scheduling — on its own cloud computer.

🧠

Message Your Bot

Desktop, iPhone, or a group chat

Send a message to your Bot from the desktop app or your iPhone. It runs on its own cloud computer, so it picks up your message, discovers your Google My Business account via Postiz, uploads your media, and schedules the post — then asks you to approve before it goes live.

Grok Bot

You: Post to Google My Business about our new
  feature launch, schedule for tomorrow
  at 9am

Bot: Got it! Here's the plan:
  1. Find your Google My Business integration
  2. Compose your post content
  3. Schedule for tomorrow 9:00 AM

  Done! Post scheduled successfully.
  Post ID: abc-123

🧠

Routines

Recurring work on a schedule

Save the task as a routine. Your Bot runs it on a schedule from the cloud, checks for new content, and posts it to Google My Business automatically — no manual trigger needed.

Grok Bot routine

Routine: daily-google-my-business-posts
Schedule: Weekdays at 9:00 AM

Instructions:
  Check ~/content/posts on your cloud
  computer for new .txt files. For
  each one, read the content and
  schedule a post to Google My Business for
  today at noon via Postiz. Move
  posted files to ~/content/published
  and send me a summary.

Why Grok Bot + Postiz for Google My Business

Grok Bot makes Postiz a natural fit for your Google My Business workflow. The Bot reads the plugin's skill, chains the right commands together, and keeps running from the cloud.

✓Official plugin — one command install from the marketplace
✓Always on — posts to Google My Business from the cloud while you are away
✓Terminal access runs Postiz commands directly on the Bot's computer
✓Routines for hands-free daily posting
✓Cross-post to Google My Business + other platforms in a single conversation
✓Approvals keep a human in the loop before publishing

SKILL.md (bundled in the plugin)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including GMB
metadata:
  grok-bot:
    plugin: postiz
    secrets:
      - POSTIZ_API_KEY
    binaries:
      - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# GMB Settings
topicType, callToActionType,
callToActionUrl, eventTitle,
eventStartDate, eventEndDate,
eventStartTime, eventEndTime,
offerCouponCode, offerRedeemUrl,
offerTerms

Also Works with Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including Anthropic's Claude Code.

Claude Code

by Anthropic

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your GMB integration, determines the right post type and CTA settings, and publishes the update.

Claude Code

> Create a Google My Business event post
  for our grand opening on March 15th
  from 10am to 6pm, with a Book CTA

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Join us for our Grand Opening!" \
    -s "2025-03-14T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{
      "topicType":"EVENT",
      "eventTitle":"Grand Opening",
      "eventStartDate":"2025-03-15",
      "eventEndDate":"2025-03-15",
      "eventStartTime":"10:00",
      "eventEndTime":"18:00",
      "callToActionType":"BOOK",
      "callToActionUrl":
        "https://example.com/book"}' \
    -i "gmb-id"

Google My Business + Other Platforms

Schedule the same content to Google My Business and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Post to Google My Business and Facebook simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Spring sale! 20% off everything this weekend. Visit us today!" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "topicType": "OFFER",
    "callToActionType": "GET_OFFER",
    "callToActionUrl": "https://example.com/sale",
    "offerCouponCode": "SPRING20",
    "offerRedeemUrl": "https://example.com/redeem",
    "offerTerms": "Valid March 1-3 only"
  }' \
  -i "gmb-id,facebook-id"

# Batch schedule weekly business updates
for week in 1 2 3 4; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Week $week update: New arrivals in store!" \
    -s "2025-03-0${week}T10:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"topicType":"STANDARD","callToActionType":"LEARN_MORE","callToActionUrl":"https://example.com/new"}' \
    -i "gmb-id"
done

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