VideoAI — AI Avatar Social Media Automation

Built a fully automated content pipeline that scans Hacker News daily for trending tech stories, uses GPT-4o to write platform-optimized video scripts, and renders personalized talking-avatar videos via the HeyGen API. Videos are published natively to X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook through direct OAuth 2.0 integrations.

VideoAI — AI Avatar Social Media Automation
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Key Features

  • Automated content pipeline: news discovery → AI script generation → avatar video rendering → social media publishing
  • HeyGen V2 API integration to produce personalized talking-avatar videos from user-uploaded photos
  • Native OAuth 2.0 video upload flows for X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook
  • Role-based auth (admin/user) with per-user cron scheduling and timezone support
  • AI-generated captions tailored to each platform's tone and character limits

Technologies Used

React
TypeScript
Node.js
Express
PostgreSQL
OpenAI
HeyGen API