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Schedule Post

Schedule an existing post for future publication at a specific date and time. Set the optimal posting time for maximum engagement.

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Use cases

Common ways to use the Schedule Post tool with OpenClaw.

Schedule a post for Tuesday morning when your audience is most active
Queue up content for the entire week in one session
Set a specific publish time for a time-sensitive announcement

Example prompts

Try these natural language prompts with your AI assistant after connecting OpenClaw.

Schedule my latest post for Tuesday at 9am EST

Queue this post for next Monday morning

Schedule the LinkedIn post for the best engagement time

MCP tool call

Schedule a post for a specific date and time

{
  "tool": "schedule-post",
  "arguments": {
    "post_id": "post_9d4e2f1a",
    "schedule_date": "2026-04-08T14:30:00Z"
  }
}

Parameters reference

Arguments accepted by the schedule-post tool.

Field	Type	Required	Description
post_id	string	Yes	The ID of the post to schedule
schedule_date	string	Yes	ISO 8601 datetime for when the post should be published

How to use Schedule Post

01
Connect OpenClaw to your AI assistant
Add the OpenClaw MCP server URL (mcp.bolta.ai/mcp) to your assistant's MCP configuration and set your Bolta API key as the Bearer token.
02
Ask your assistant to use schedule-post
Simply describe what you want in natural language. Your AI assistant will call the schedule-post tool automatically. For example: "Schedule my latest post for Tuesday at 9am EST"
03
Review and take action
Review the results your assistant returns and follow up with additional commands as needed. You can chain multiple tools together in a single conversation.

Related tools

Tools that work well with Schedule Post.

Publish Post

Immediately publish a post to all its targeted platforms. Bypasses scheduling and pushes the content live right now.

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Create Post

Create a new social media post draft with text, media, platform targeting, and scheduling options. The foundation for all content publishing in Bolta.

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List Scheduled Posts

Retrieve all posts that are currently scheduled for future publication, sorted by publish date. Quickly see what is coming up in your content queue.

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