Convert RSS news to AI avatar videos with Heygen & GPT-4o

🎬 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:

1. Fetches news from an RSS feed.
2. Logs headlines to Google Sheets.
3. Uses GPT-4o or Google Gemini to generate a 30–60 sec script.
4. Sends the script to Heygen to create an avatar video.
5. Monitors and retrieves the final video.
6. 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