SOCIAL MEDIA

Scrape Top Evergreen Blog Posts and Spin Up YouTube Shorts

Scrapes your blog index for top evergreen posts, extracts each hero image, animates it with Replicate, and posts the clips as YouTube Shorts with auto-written titles.

CategorySocial Media
Enginesim
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerRecurring schedule
  • ActionScrape blog index for posts and hero imagesFirecrawl
  • LogicKeep evergreen posts, skip already processed
  • ActionAnimate hero image into vertical clipReplicateReplicate
  • ActionGenerate Shorts title and descriptionOpenAI
  • OutputPublish as YouTube ShortsSocial publishing

What it does

On a recurring schedule it scrapes your public blog index with Firecrawl, identifies evergreen articles, extracts each post's hero image, and uses Replicate to turn that image into a short vertical clip. OpenAI writes a Shorts-style title and description, then the clip is published to your social platforms as a YouTube Short.

When to use it

Use it when your evergreen content lives only on a website (no CMS API handy) and you want to mine it for short-form video on autopilot. Great for repurposing high-traffic old posts that still drive search.

How it works

  1. 1A schedule trigger starts the run every few days.
  2. 2Firecrawl scrapes the blog index and extracts post URLs, titles, and hero images.
  3. 3A logic step keeps only posts tagged or categorized as evergreen and skips any already processed.
  4. 4Replicate animates each hero image into a 9:16 clip.
  5. 5OpenAI generates a punchy Shorts title and description.
  6. 6Post-to-platforms publishes each clip as a YouTube Short with the generated metadata.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect FirecrawlCrawl, scrape, structured extract.
  2. 2
    Connect ReplicateImage, video, and model inference.
  3. 3
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  4. 4
    Connect Social publishingCross-post to X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and 4 more in one call.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

Run this workflow in your colony.

14-day trial. No DevOps. No Sales call. Provisioned in under a minute.