Hacker News to Video Template - AlexK1919
This workflow is designed to automate the process of scraping the latest technology news from Hacker News and using AI technology to generate concise summaries and relevant images. By integrating various tools, it enables the rapid production of high-quality videos and supports one-click uploads to major cloud storage and social media platforms, significantly enhancing the efficiency and convenience of content creation. It is suitable for fields such as media, marketing, and education, helping users quickly transform news into engaging visual content to meet diverse communication needs.
Workflow Name
Hacker News to Video Template - AlexK1919
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow automates the entire process of capturing the latest technology news from Hacker News, leveraging OpenAI to intelligently analyze article content, automatically generate concise summaries and image prompts, and utilize Leonardo.ai to create relevant images. It then employs RunwayML and Creatomate to synthesize these images with AI-generated voiceovers into high-quality videos. Finally, it supports one-click uploading to multiple cloud storage services (such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive) and publishing across major social media platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube). The process is highly automated, integrating multiple AI and multimedia processing services to significantly enhance content creation and distribution efficiency.
Core Problems Addressed
- Automatically filtering and analyzing large volumes of news articles to accurately identify content related to automation and AI
- Generating professional, concise news summaries and visual assets automatically, reducing manual content creation costs
- Providing an all-in-one solution for image generation, video production, and multi-channel distribution, resolving fragmentation in content production and publishing
- Supporting highly customizable multimedia output to meet diverse branding and marketing requirements
Use Cases
- Automated media content production: enabling tech news media and content creators to rapidly convert news articles into video content
- Corporate marketing and brand promotion: automatically generating visually impactful video news summaries for social media campaigns
- Educational and training institutions: automatically compiling industry updates and producing instructional video materials
- Individual or team content curation: easily creating video news digests to improve information dissemination efficiency
Main Workflow Steps
- Trigger Start: Manually initiate the workflow
- News Retrieval: Fetch the latest news list from Hacker News, limited to 50 items
- Iterative Processing: Process each news item sequentially
- Article Analysis: Use OpenAI models to determine if the article relates to automation or AI, generate a 250-word summary, and extract relevant image links
- Content Preparation: Further refine the summary with OpenAI, producing a brief news introduction, two short summary snippets, and corresponding image prompt keywords
- Image Generation: Generate high-quality images with Leonardo.ai based on prompts (including two rounds of generation and prompt optimization)
- Video Production:
- Convert generated images into video clips using RunwayML
- Combine video clips with text subtitles and AI voice synthesis via Creatomate to produce the final video
- Video Retrieval and Wait: Use wait nodes to ensure video generation completes before retrieving the final video file
- Multi-Channel Upload: Automatically upload videos to Minio object storage and synchronize with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and other cloud platforms
- Social Publishing: Publish video content to YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, and other social media platforms
Systems and Services Involved
- Hacker News (news data source)
- OpenAI (article analysis, summarization, text generation, voice synthesis)
- Leonardo.ai (AI image generation)
- RunwayML (image-to-video conversion)
- Creatomate (video composition and rendering)
- Minio (object storage)
- Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive (cloud storage)
- YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram (social media publishing)
Target Users and Value Proposition
- Content creators and media operators seeking to rapidly automate video news summary production, saving significant editing and production time
- Marketing teams and brand promoters leveraging AI to automatically generate visually rich promotional content, enhancing outreach effectiveness
- Tech enthusiasts and automation engineers interested in learning and building AI-driven multimedia automation workflows
- Educational institutions and trainers aiming to enrich and engage teaching materials through automated content production
This workflow combines innovative AI technologies with multi-platform tools to achieve full-process automation from news acquisition to video creation and publishing, offering users an efficient and intelligent content production solution.