AI-Powered Content Agent: Hacker News to Video Automation

Unlock Automated Video Content Creation with this AI Agent

This n8n workflow acts as a sophisticated AI Agent designed to streamline your content repurposing pipeline. It fetches stories from Hacker News (easily swappable for your preferred content source), then leverages a suite of AI capabilities to transform text articles into dynamic video content.

Its core abilities include:

• Content Analysis & Summarization: Uses OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini or similar) to determine if an article is relevant to specified topics (e.g., AI, automation) and generates concise summaries and blurbs.
• AI Image Generation: Connects to Leonardo.ai to create unique, contextually relevant images based on AI-generated prompts derived from the article's content.
• AI Video Snippet Generation: Utilizes RunwayML to transform the AI-generated images into short, animated video clips.
• AI Voiceover & Video Compilation: Employs Creatomate to assemble the images, video clips, and article summaries into a polished final video, complete with AI-generated voiceovers (via OpenAI TTS) and dynamic subtitles.

This AI Agent empowers you to rapidly convert news and articles into engaging video formats, perfect for social media, newsletters, or internal updates, saving significant manual effort.

Key Features & Benefits

• Automated Content Ingestion: Starts with Hacker News, but adaptable to RSS feeds, APIs, or other data sources.
• Intelligent Content Filtering: AI-driven analysis ensures only relevant articles are processed.
• Multi-Modal AI Generation: Leverages LLMs for text, and specialized AI services for image and video creation.
• Customizable Outputs: Fine-tune AI prompts for summaries, image styles, and voiceover characteristics.
• End-to-End Automation: From article discovery to final video rendering, the entire process can be automated.
• Scalable Content Production: Dramatically increase your video content output without a proportional increase in manual work.
• Extensible Design: Easily add steps to distribute the final video to platforms like YouTube, Google Drive, social media channels, or cloud storage.

• An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
• OpenAI API Key (models like gpt-4o-mini or gpt-4 recommended for analysis & voiceover).
• Leonardo.ai API Key and account for image generation.
• RunwayML API Key and account for image-to-video generation.
• Creatomate API Key, account, and a pre-configured Creatomate Template ID for video compilation.
• Credentials for any desired output platforms (e.g., YouTube, Google Drive, social media accounts).

1. Download the n8n workflow JSON file.
2. Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
3. Configure the 'Hacker News' node or replace it with your desired content source (e.g., RSS feed, other API).
4. In the OpenAI nodes ('OpenAI Chat Model3' within the 'Article Analysis' Langchain Agent, 'Article Analysis' Agent itself, 'Image Analysis', 'Article Prep'), configure your OpenAI API credentials.
5. For Leonardo.ai integration, update the HTTP Request nodes ('Leo - Improve Prompt', 'Leo - Generate Image', 'Leo - Get imageId', etc.) with your Leonardo.ai API Key in the authentication settings and ensure URLs are correct.
6. For RunwayML integration, update the HTTP Request nodes ('Runway - Create Video', 'Runway - Get Video') with your RunwayML API Key in the authentication settings and ensure URLs point to the correct API version.
7. For Creatomate integration, update the 'Cre - Generate Video1' HTTP Request node with your Creatomate API Key in the authentication settings and insert your Creatomate template_id in the JSON body.
8. Customize the system prompts and user prompts within the OpenAI nodes ('Article Analysis', 'Article Prep') to tailor summaries, blurbs, and image generation instructions to your specific requirements and desired output style.
9. Review and adjust the duration of 'Wait' nodes. API processing times for generative AI services can vary.
10. Configure the final output nodes (e.g., 'Upload to Minio', 'Google Drive', 'YouTube', 'X', 'LinkedIn') with your respective credentials and desired settings if you plan to use them.
11. Activate the workflow. Test with a single item first to ensure all integrations are working correctly.