Convert RSS News to AI Avatar Videos with Heygen & GPT-4o

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🎬 Automated News-to-Video Workflow (n8n + Heygen + GPT-4o) 📄 Overview: This n8n workflow turns news from an RSS feed (e.g., CNN) into short, AI-generated avatar videos using Heygen. It: Fetches news from an RSS feed. Logs headlines to Google Sheets. Uses GPT-4o or Google Gemini to generate a 30–60 sec script. Sends the script to Heygen to create an avatar video. Monitors and retrieves the final video. Logs video metadata (title, link, etc.) to Google Sheets. 🎯 Ideal for content creators, marketers, or media pages repurposing written news into video content at scale. ⚙️ Setup Guide (No Sensitive Info) 🔑 1. Heygen API Paid Heygen plan required. Add your API key in the Setup Heygen node: "heygen_api_key": "your_key_here" Optional: Set "avatar_id" and "voice_id" as desired. 💡 2. AI Model: GPT-4o or Gemini GPT-4o**: Use OpenAI’s node or HTTP request with your API key. Gemini**: Link your Google Cloud project and connect the Gemini node using OAuth2 credentials. 📥 3. RSS Feed Add an RSS node (e.g., CNN). Extract title, link, and content. 📊 4. Google Sheets + Drive Connect via OAuth2: "Google Sheets account 2" "Google Drive account 2" Replace sheet IDs in: Log news to sheets Log video URL and title to sheets 📹 5. Create Video (Heygen) Send a POST request to Heygen's API using the generated script, avatar, and voice ID. ⏳ 6. Monitor Status Poll the status endpoint until video is ready. Capture the download link. 🧾 7. Log Final Output Save video metadata to a Google Sheet for publishing or archiving. Set up video: Link in Workflow. An n8n automation workflow template by David Olusola.

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Categories

• Automation
• AI

Tags

• n8n
• workflow
• google-sheets
• http-request
• google-drive
• code
• ai-agent
• openai-chat-model

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• 6 nodes
• 2,359 views

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