Connect a social media account

Steps

1. Open Library, then the Integrations tab.
2. Find the service and click its button: Add for YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Spotify, Deezer, the podcasts, Discord, Shopify, Shotgun and RSS feeds, Connect for TikTok and Pinterest. The word changes because the step changes — see below. For RSS and Shopify, which accept several accounts, a panel opens on the right: the form sits above the list of what is already plugged in.
3. For YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Spotify, Deezer and the three podcast cards, paste the handle, the name or the page address. Check the name that then appears: searching by name can land on a namesake. For Discord, paste a permanent invite link: Discord invites expire after seven days by default, and an expiring link is refused. For Shopify, paste your shop address (myshop.com): nothing else to do, TinyLink reads what your shop already publishes. For Shotgun, enter your organizer ID and an API key — in Shotgun Pro: Settings > Integrations > Shotgun APIs, “Generate a token”; the key is stored encrypted and only reads your published events. The organizer name is optional: Shotgun only gives it to us through an event, fill it in if you have none yet. For TikTok and Pinterest, you are sent to the platform to authorise TinyLink: it asks for your consent, never us.
4. The account shows as connected, with its content already loaded. For RSS and Shopify it joins the list in the panel, which stays open: the next one goes in right away, and the card announces how many accounts are plugged in. The rest happens in the page builder, where you choose what each block displays.

What we read, and what we do not

Only what is public on your account: its name, its picture, its counters, its latest post. Never your messages, never your drafts, and we never publish anything on your behalf.

That is what the two words mean. For YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Spotify, Deezer, the podcasts, Discord, Shopify and RSS feeds you add a channel, an artist, a podcast, a server, a shop or a site: the data is already visible to everyone, there is nothing to authorise and no password to type — nothing checks that the channel is yours, either. For TikTok and Pinterest you connect an account: the platform asks for your consent, and it asks you, never us.

How often the content updates

A robot runs every five minutes and picks up the accounts that are furthest behind. Each service has its own pace: ten minutes for Twitch and Kick, whose live status is only worth showing when fresh, three hours for the podcasts, which publish one episode a week, and one hour for all the others — YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, Discord, Shopify. Your pages never call the platforms: they display the last known content. That is what keeps them fast, and what stops a YouTube outage from breaking your page.

Two situations stretch that pace. An account that no block shows is only picked up once a day: there is no point calling a platform for content nobody looks at. Add it to a page and it goes back to its pace straight away. And an account that stops answering is spaced out to six hours after five attempts — hammering a service that says no will not change its mind. Its card always announces the next refresh — in the service panel for RSS and Shopify.

You do not have to wait: the ↻ button next to an account asks for an immediate update, with ten minutes between two. It does exactly what the robot does.

How many accounts you can connect

It depends on your plan, and the counter at the top of the tab reminds you. The free plan allows one account: enough to show your channel and your latest video, since one account feeds as many blocks as you like, on as many pages as you like.

Each service is plugged in once: your YouTube channel, your Discord server, your Spotify artist. The Add button leaves its card once the account is in place — remove it to connect another.

Two services are the exception, because what you point at is a piece of content rather than an account: RSS, where you follow as many feeds as you read sites — a blog, a newsletter, a podcast —, and Shopify, where you plug in one shop per brand or per country. Those two open a panel: their card only announces how many accounts are plugged in, and the list lives in the panel, where each one has its own state, refresh and removal. Each one counts as one against your plan.

If you move to a plan that allows fewer, nothing is deleted: your oldest accounts stay active within the new plan's limit, the most recent ones are suspended. Their card says so, the robot stops refreshing them and their blocks leave your public pages. They come back as they were if you move up a plan again; you can also remove an older account to free its place.

Disconnecting an account

The Remove button — Disconnect for an authorised account — removes the account and its content. It is on the service card; for RSS and Shopify, open the panel with Manage first, it sits on the account's row. The blocks of your pages that displayed it are not lost: they are archived with their last content, and leave your pages. You find them again in the Archived tab of the builder, to restore them as ordinary links or delete them.

An account that needs reconnecting

An authorisation has an end, and its owner can withdraw it. When that happens, the card says so and a Reconnect button appears: one click is enough, there is nothing to redo. Meanwhile your blocks keep showing the last content received rather than disappearing.

This stays rare: the robot renews authorisations on its own, before they expire. You only need to come back if you revoked access from the platform itself.