Create AI news shorts from Hacker News with OpenAI, AtlasCloud and Blotato
UnknownWhat this workflow does
This AI workflow has 15 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow”. Along the way it connects Hacker News, OpenAI Chat Model and Blotato (community). It also calls api.atlascloud.ai over HTTP.
How it runs
Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow”.
- Configuration (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 9 fields: topic_keyword, articles_to_scan, atlas_model…
- Fetch Hacker News front page (Hacker News): work with all
- Combine stories into one item (Aggregate): combines items into one
- Pick best story and write video brief (Basic LLM Chain): sends a prompt to an LLM, with model: OpenAI Chat Model; output parser: Video Brief Parser
- Start AI video generation (HTTP Request): calls api.atlascloud.ai (POST)
- Wait: pauses before continuing
- Check video status (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
- Route on video status (Switch): routes items into 2 branches
- Prepare post content (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 5 fields: video_url, video_title, video_caption…
- Stop - video generation failed (Stop and Error): stops the run with an error
…plus 2 more steps. See the full node list below.
Services it uses
HTTP calls to: api.atlascloud.ai
Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0
We can't fully verify this one: it relies on 1 community package, and n8n 3.0 turns unverified community packages off by default (N8N_UNVERIFIED_PACKAGES_ENABLED=false).
- Check that @blotato/n8n-nodes-blotato is verified or supports 3.0 (used in 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
From the author
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…