I made a fully automated AI TikTok pipeline for content creation

I spent the last month building a system that takes a tiktok from idea to finished video with barely any manual work. Most of the ideas here I pulled from other creators who shared their setups, I just wired them together. running it all through n8n (zapier works too).

The bottleneck was never ideas, it was production. Turning an idea into a formatted captioned 9:16 video without burning an hour per clip. Here's the flow.

ingestion. rss feeds for ~12 sources (twitter, reddit, hn, a few ai blogs), scheduled job scrapes new posts every few hours into s3 as markdown. By the end of day I've got ~100 raw stories sitting there to pull from. runs in the background, i never touch it.

curation. Once a day a prompt reads the day's stories, picks the top 3-5 by how likely they are to pop (breakthrough / practical / drama / wow-factor), dedupes anything covering the same event, spits out structured json. one thing that bit me: force it to copy source urls exactly, no guessing, or the links rot.

script + hooks. I loop over each story one at a time instead of doing them all in one go. each one gets fed to a script prompt that writes 5 hooks, keeps the 2 best, and drafts two ~55 sec talking-head scripts. I feed it 2-3 of my past best scripts as reference so the voice stays consistent. output lands in telegram for me to approve.

voice + avatar. approved script goes to elevenlabs for the vo and an avatar tool for the talking head. This is my one human checkpoint, I pick which of the two scripts runs.

visuals. b-roll generated per scene, i keep clips to ~10 sec and chain 3 for a 30 sec video (hook shot, middle beat, cta), then stitch with the voiceover.

Check the hook cheap before spending on a full render. I draft a junk low-quality version first just to feel the pacing, then commit to the real gen only if it lands. Keep the character the same or your channel looks like five different people. lock one reference and reuse it instead of regenerating the face each time. The script matters way more than the video model. bad script = bad video no matter how clean the footage is.