Hacker News to Video Content

n8n template #2557

Summary

Hacker News to Video Content Overview This workflow converts trending articles from Hacker News into engaging video content. It integrates AI-based tools to analyze, summarize, and generate multimedia content, making it ideal for content creators, educators, and marketers. Features Article Retrieval: Pulls trending articles from Hacker News. Limits the number of articles to process (configurable). Content Analysis: Uses OpenAI's GPT model to: Summarize articles. Assess their relevance to specific topics like automation or AI. Extract key image URLs. Image and Video Generation: Leonardo.ai: Creates stunning AI-generated images based on extracted prompts. RunwayML: Converts images into high-qu

How to set it up

Open template #2557 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
Create 10 credentials under Credentials → Add credential: Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, X (Formerly Twitter), Hacker News, YouTube, S3, LinkedIn, OpenAI Chat Model, OpenAI. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
Check the model in the AI Agent node. The template may point at a model your account can't use; swap it for one you have access to.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "Hacker News to Video Content" (https://n8n.io/workflows/2557). It uses: Dropbox, HTTP Request, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, X (Formerly Twitter), Hacker News, YouTube, S3, LinkedIn, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model, Structured Output Parser, OpenAI, HTTP Request Tool. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

Apps and nodes

DropboxHTTP Request Google DriveMicrosoft OneDriveX (Formerly Twitter)Hacker NewsYouTubeS3LinkedIn AI Agent OpenAI Chat Model Structured Output Parser OpenAI HTTP Request Tool

Questions

Yes. Alex Kim published it free on n8n.io as a verified creator, and it has 47K views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, X (Formerly Twitter), Hacker News, YouTube, S3, LinkedIn, OpenAI Chat Model, OpenAI. The other 4 nodes are built into n8n.

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