Create AI news shorts from Hacker News with OpenAI, AtlasCloud and Blotato
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@blotato/n8n-nodes-blotato(Publish video to YouTube, Publish video to TikTok)
Nodes used (12)
- Manual Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set - Hacker News
n8n-nodes-base.hackerNews - Aggregate
n8n-nodes-base.aggregate - Basic LLM Chain
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm - OpenAI Chat Model
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi - Structured Output Parser
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.outputParserStructured - HTTP Request
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest - Wait
n8n-nodes-base.wait - Switch
n8n-nodes-base.switch - Blotato
@blotato/n8n-nodes-blotato.blotato - Stop and Error
n8n-nodes-base.stopAndError
What it does
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 📥 Open full documentation on Notion Need help customizing? Contact me for consulting and support : Linkedin MY NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL 👉 Subscribe to my new YouTube channel. Here I'll share videos and Shorts with practical tutorials and FREE templates for n8n. !The AI Doctor