🎬 Create AI news shorts from Hacker News with OpenAI, AtlasCloud and Blotato

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Description

Quick overview

This workflow fetches trending Hacker News front-page stories for a keyword, uses OpenAI to select one and write a short-form video brief, generates an AI video via AtlasCloud, then publishes the finished clip to YouTube and TikTok through Blotato.

How it works

  1. Starts when you manually execute the workflow.
  2. Pulls the latest Hacker News front-page stories that match your configured keyword and combines them into a single list.
  3. Uses OpenAI to choose the most compelling story and generate a cinematic text-to-video prompt, a short title, a caption, and hashtags.
  4. Sends the prompt to AtlasCloud to generate a short AI video with the configured duration, aspect ratio, and resolution.
  5. Polls AtlasCloud at the configured interval until the generation succeeds or fails.
  6. When the video is ready, publishes the video URL to YouTube and then TikTok via Blotato using the generated title/caption and AI-generated/synthetic media flags.

Setup

  1. Add an OpenAI API credential and select it in the OpenAI Chat Model step.
  2. Create an AtlasCloud HTTP Header Auth credential (Bearer token) and select it in both AtlasCloud HTTP requests.
  3. Add a Blotato API credential, then select your YouTube and TikTok accounts in the two Blotato publish steps.
  4. Update the values in the Configuration step (keyword, AtlasCloud model, duration, aspect ratio, resolution, poll wait time, and TikTok privacy level) to match your needs.

Additional info

Hacker News to video content with Blotato

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🔗 Nodes Used

HTTP Request, Hacker News, Stop and Error, Basic LLM Chain, OpenAI Chat Model, Structured Output Parser

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup