Generate & Auto-post Tech News AI Avatar Videos to Social Media with Heygen and Blotato

Description

This workflow contains community nodes that are only compatible with the self-hosted version of n8n.

Description
This fully automated AI Avatar Social Media system creates talking head AI clone videos, WITHOUT having to film or edit yourself. It combines n8n, AI agent, HeyGen, and Blotato to research, create, and distribute talking head AI clone videos to every social media platform every single day.

This template is ideal for content creators, social media managers, social media agencies, small businesses, and marketers who want to to scale short-form video creation, without manually filming and editing every single video.

Overview
1. Trigger: Schedule
Configured to run once daily at 10am

2. AI News Research
Research viral news from tech-focused forum, Hackernews
Fetch the selected news item, plus discussion comments

3. AI Writer
AI writes 30-second monologue script
AI writes short video caption

4. Create Avatar Video
Call Heygen API (requires paid API plan), specifying your avatar ID and voice ID
Create avatar video, optionally passing in an image/video background if you have a green screen avatar (matte: true)

5. Get Video
Wait awhile, then fetch completed avatar video
Upload video to Blotato

6. Publish to Social Media via Blotato
Connect your Blotato account
Choose your social accounts
Either post immediately or schedule for later"

📄 Documentation
Full Tutorial

Troubleshooting
Check your Blotato API Dashboard to see every request, response, and error. Click on a request to see the details.

Need Help?
In the Blotato web app, click the orange button on the bottom right corner. This opens the Support messenger where I help answer technical questions.