Reddit-to-YouTube Shorts Generator
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Turns trending Reddit stories into narrated, illustrated YouTube Shorts automatically, from sourcing through to a finished video.
The problem
Keeping a story-narration YouTube Shorts channel consistently stocked with new videos means continuously finding source material, writing scripts, generating matching visuals, and producing narration for every single upload — production overhead that's hard to sustain manually at the pace a Shorts channel needs.
How it works
The workflow scrapes trending posts from a configured subreddit — motivational or self-improvement communities work well for this format, though any subreddit can be configured — filters for the strongest posts, and queues them as source material rather than needing a person to browse and pick stories manually.
Each selected post is turned into a short narrated script by an AI model, broken into scenes with a matching image prompt for each one, plus a title and description ready for the upload itself.
Scene images are generated in a consistent visual style — a moody, high-contrast, documentary-like look formatted for vertical video — so the finished short has a coherent aesthetic across every scene rather than mismatched imagery.
The pipeline runs end-to-end without manual editing: script, images, narration, and formatting are all produced automatically, and the workflow can run continuously to keep a channel’s upload schedule full.
Key capabilities
- Sources and filters trending Reddit posts from a configured subreddit
- Generates a scene-by-scene script with matching image prompts via AI
- Produces AI images in a consistent visual style across every scene
- Generates narration, title, and description alongside the video
- Runs continuously to keep a channel’s upload schedule filled without manual editing
Built on
- n8n for workflow orchestration
- Reddit API integration for source content
- An LLM step for script and image-prompt generation
- An AI image-generation model for scene visuals
- Text-to-speech for narration
Best for: YouTube Shorts channels running a story-narration or motivational format who need a continuous pipeline of new videos.