Automate Google My Business with Perplexity Computer

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

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

Post to Google My Business in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# 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

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Business Posts

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

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Event Promotion

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

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Offers & Coupons

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

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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.

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Local SEO Boost

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

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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 Perplexity Computer?

Perplexity Computer is a general-purpose digital worker that decomposes high-level goals into subtasks, spawns specialized sub-agents across 19 AI models, and delivers finished results — from code to marketing campaigns.

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Task Decomposition

Perplexity Computer breaks complex social media campaigns into subtasks and handles each one with specialized sub-agents for maximum quality.

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Multi-Model

Spawns sub-agents across 19 different AI models, picking the best model for each subtask — content writing, image generation, scheduling, and more.

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End-to-End Delivery

Schedule recurring tasks with cron jobs. Perplexity Computer can post your Google My Business updates on a schedule without you having to ask each time.

How Postiz Works with Perplexity Computer

When you install Postiz Agent globally, Perplexity Computer automatically discovers it by reading the bundled SKILL.md file. This file tells Perplexity Computer what commands are available, what environment variables are needed, and how to compose Google My Business posts with the right settings.

✓Install Postiz Agent and set your POSTIZ_API_KEY
✓Perplexity Computer discovers Postiz through tool integration
✓Tasks are decomposed across specialized sub-agents
✓Each sub-agent picks the best model for its subtask
✓Results are delivered end-to-end with verification

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Perplexity Computer discovers Postiz
# through its tool integration system
# and decomposes tasks across sub-agents

Google My Business Posting with Perplexity Computer

Message Perplexity Computer from any platform — it reads the Postiz skill, discovers your Google My Business integration, and handles the entire posting workflow autonomously.

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From Any Chat App

Give Perplexity Computer a high-level go...

Send a message to Perplexity Computer from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your GMB account via Postiz, creates the post with the right type and CTA, and publishes it.

Perplexity Computer

You: Create a week-long Google My Business
  campaign for our product launch

Perplexity Computer:
  Breaking this into subtasks:
  1. Research trending topics
  2. Draft 5 posts with varied angles
  3. Find your Google My Business integration
  4. Schedule posts across the week

  All 5 posts scheduled!
  Mon-Fri at 10:00 AM.

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Scheduled & Proactive

Perplexity Computer can execute rec...

Perplexity Computer supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that posts weekly business updates, promotes upcoming events, or shares rotating offers — no manual trigger needed.

Perplexity Computer Task

Tell Perplexity Computer:

"Every Monday morning, create a
week's worth of Google My Business content
based on trending topics in our
industry. Schedule one post per day
at 10 AM. Use engaging hooks and
relevant hashtags."

Perplexity Computer will:
  1. Research current trends
  2. Generate 5 unique posts
  3. Schedule via Postiz
  4. Report results back

Why Perplexity Computer + Postiz for Google My Business

Perplexity Computer makes Postiz a natural fit for your Google My Business workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Decomposes complex Google My Business campaigns into optimized subtasks
✓19 AI models — picks the best one for each part of the workflow
✓End-to-end delivery from ideation to scheduled publishing
✓Research-powered content based on real-time trending topics
✓Cross-post to Google My Business + other platforms in a single request
✓Available to Perplexity Max subscribers

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including GMB
metadata:
  perplexity-computer:
    requirements:
      env:
        - 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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