Post to Social Media from Perplexity Computer

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Perplexity Computer is Perplexity's agent for tasks that take many steps. Once iHatePosting is added as a custom connector, it can turn research into posts, check them against each network's rules and schedule them — all in the same task.

How do I connect iHatePosting to Perplexity Computer?

It takes about a minute. Nothing here needs a download, and the only thing you carry between the two apps is a key you can revoke whenever you like.

1Step 1
Create an iHatePosting API key
Sign in, open Settings → Developers and create a key. It starts with pk_live_, and the same page can show it again whenever you need it.
2Step 2
Add iHatePosting to Perplexity Computer
Paste this URL as the MCP server URL in Perplexity → Account settings → Connectors → + Custom connector → Add MCP connector. If the form shows Remote and Local tabs, stay on Remote. Give it a name, such as iHatePosting. Open Advanced, set Authentication to API Key (it starts on OAuth) and paste your key, and leave Transport on Streamable HTTP. Tick the box that says you understand the risks, press Add, then click the connector's card to turn it on.
Perplexity Computer — connector
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https://ihateposting.com/mcp?client=perplexity
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3Step 3
Ask it to post
Tell Perplexity Computer what you want to say and where. It saves a draft in iHatePosting unless you ask for the post to go out now or at a set time.

What is different about Perplexity Computer

Every client reaches the same server, and then behaves like itself. These are the things that are true here and not somewhere else.

Add it once under Account settings, then Connectors. Custom connectors work in Perplexity conversations and in Computer.

Choose API Key as the authentication and paste your key there — the URL carries nothing secret. Perplexity keeps the key on its side, so there is no environment variable to set.

Pick Streamable HTTP as the transport. iHatePosting does not serve the older SSE transport, so an SSE connector never connects.

Adding the connector does not test the key, because iHatePosting lists its tools to anyone who asks. If a tool later answers iHatePosting API 401, the key is wrong or has been replaced — create a new one in Settings → Developers and give Perplexity that.

Computer normally works in Perplexity's cloud, so it cannot start a server on your own computer; the hosted connector is the way in. Some Perplexity desktop setups can run MCP servers on your own machine (the Mac app, or Portable Computer in Local mode under Settings → MCP servers), but cloud Computer never uses those, so add the connector either way. Computer also accepts uploaded skill files, but iHatePosting's skill logs our command-line tool in with your raw key, and Perplexity never hands raw keys to Computer's sandbox — use the connector instead.

Limits. Custom connectors need a paid plan — Pro, Max or Enterprise — and Computer uses credits. On Enterprise, members can add their own connectors only once an admin allows it. The server address must use HTTPS.

Perplexity's own documentation: Adding custom remote connectors

Nothing goes out unless you say so

Every post Perplexity Computer writes is saved as a draft in iHatePosting unless you ask for it to be published now or at a set time. Publishing, rescheduling, retrying and deleting are marked as actions that change things, so clients that honour those markings ask you before they run them. Deleting a post in iHatePosting never removes one that is already live on a network.

What is the iHatePosting MCP?

MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is the standard way an assistant plugs into an app it does not own. Our server exposes the accounts you have connected to Perplexity Computer as tools, so it can draft, check and schedule without you opening a dashboard.

How Perplexity Computer uses it

You add the connector once — by signing in, or with a key you create
Perplexity Computer reads which accounts you have connected, and each network's rules
It writes a version per network and checks it against those rules before sending
It saves a draft, schedules it, or publishes — exactly as your message said
It works alongside whatever other tools Perplexity Computer already has

tools Perplexity Computer can call

# read and check (9)
whoami              list_accounts
list_posts          get_post
get_analytics       get_platform_rules
list_media          list_pinterest_boards
validate_post

# write (7)
create_post         update_post
reschedule_post     delete_post
retry_post          upload_media
open_upload_widget

Cost, access and what to do when it breaks

What does it cost?

The connector costs nothing on top of iHatePosting. iHatePosting has one plan: $15/month billed annually, or $19/month billed monthly, with unlimited social accounts. It is free for 90 days, no credit card needed, and everything is included during the trial: unlimited accounts, unlimited posts, every feature.

How is access secured?

Either you sign in to iHatePosting and approve access, or you create an API key in Settings → Developers. That page can show your key again whenever you need it. Whichever route you take, it reaches only the accounts you have already connected, and you can revoke it at any time without touching the accounts themselves.

Something not working?

It cannot see any accounts: connect them in iHatePosting first, then ask it to list them again.
You regenerated your key and it still fails: Regenerate revokes the old key the moment you press it, and a client that is already running keeps sending the old one until you genuinely restart it.
A post failed: open it in iHatePosting — the failure names the network and repeats what that network actually said.

Frequently asked questions

Where does my key go in Perplexity?

Choose API Key as the connector's authentication and paste your key there. The URL carries nothing secret, and Perplexity keeps the key on its side, so there is no environment variable to set.

Which transport should I pick?

Streamable HTTP. iHatePosting does not serve the older SSE transport, so an SSE connector never connects.

Which Perplexity plan do I need?

Custom connectors need a paid plan: Pro, Max or Enterprise, and Computer uses credits. On Enterprise, members can add their own connectors only once an admin allows it.

Can Computer use the iHatePosting skill file instead?

No. The skill logs our command-line tool in with your raw key, and Perplexity never hands raw keys to Computer's sandbox, so use the connector.

Is the Perplexity Computer connector free?

Yes. The connector costs nothing on top of iHatePosting, and iHatePosting is free for 90 days, no credit card needed. After that it is $15/month billed annually, or $19 month-to-month, with unlimited accounts.

Which networks can Perplexity Computer post to?

Any account you have connected in iHatePosting, across 15 networks: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Tumblr and Google Business Profile.

Can Perplexity Computer schedule posts for a specific date and time?

Yes. Put the date and time in the prompt — for example "schedule this for Friday at 9:00 AM" — and Perplexity Computer schedules the post for then. iHatePosting reads the time in your account's timezone, and you can ask Perplexity Computer to move a scheduled post to a new time.

One connection reaches every network

Connect your accounts in iHatePosting once. From then on Perplexity Computer can post to any of them, and we publish at the time you set — even after you close the chat.