How to draft, schedule, and publish

Create posts with explicit delivery intent and inspect their authoritative target states.

Create a safe draft

Omitting intent defaults to a draft:

delulu post "Draft caption" --to linkedin:connection_abc123

--draft is equivalent and can be useful in scripts for readability.

delulu post "Scheduled caption" \
  --to linkedin:connection_abc123 \
  --at 2026-08-01T09:00:00+05:30

Use an absolute ISO 8601 timestamp with an offset or Z.

delulu post "Live caption" \
  --to linkedin:connection_abc123 \
  --media ./demo.mp4 \
  --now

Immediate publishing always requires --now. The CLI waits up to 360 seconds unless --no-wait is supplied.

delulu edit post_abc123 "Revised caption" --draft

Use --to, --media, --privacy, or --at to replace those fields. Multi-segment posts must be edited in the web editor.

delulu publish post_abc123 --now

delulu retry post_abc123
delulu retry post_abc123 --target target_xyz

Retries only failed targets. It does not recreate the post or repeat successful targets.

delulu show post_abc123

Possible post states are draft, pending_review, changes_requested, scheduled, publishing, published, partially_failed, and failed.

Editors route into review instead of direct publishing.
Exit code 8 means at least one target failed; inspect the per-target results.
Exit code 9 means the accepted operation did not finish before timeout; inspect the returned post ID instead of creating another post.