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.