n8n Features Daily News Digest Video Generator for YouTube Shorts.

n8n is highlighting a workflow that converts a day’s WordPress stories into a vertical news video, then publishes the finished digest to YouTube automatically. The template gives newsrooms, independent publishers, and content teams a way to reuse reporting they have already produced without rebuilding each story by hand for short-form video.

The company featured the template on LinkedIn, positioning it specifically for YouTube Shorts. It was created by Alexandru Burca and is available through n8n’s workflow template library.

This is a featured community template rather than a new native video editor inside n8n. That distinction matters: n8n coordinates the content, media, rendering, and publishing steps, while Shotstack’s API handles video generation.

The Daily News Digest Video Generator runs each evening at 7 p.m. It retrieves WordPress posts published during the current day and checks that at least three articles are available before continuing, preventing the workflow from producing a thin digest when the site has not published enough material.

For every eligible post, the automation extracts its title, URL, and featured-media identifier. It then retrieves featured images through the WordPress Media API, assigns a default image where featured media is missing, strips HTML from text, normalizes whitespace, and decodes entities such as quotation marks and dashes.

The workflow can also inspect article HTML for video assets. It looks for MP4 URLs in WordPress video players, parses wp-playlist-script JSON, and checks conventional <video> and <source> elements. That allows an article’s existing video to be used instead of relying exclusively on a static featured image.

Reading time for each item is calculated at between three and seven seconds based on word count. The resulting clips are assembled by Shotstack into a 1080 by 1920-pixel video, the vertical format used by Shorts and other short-form platforms.

The template’s specified output includes:

• A three-second introductory slide with a black background, centered logo, title, and current date
• Individual news slides using an embedded video where available, or a featured image as the fallback
• Article titles, links, and cleaned content data collected from WordPress
• Automated delivery to YouTube after rendering

The main benefit is not generative video in the broad sense. It is dependable repackaging. A publisher can continue using WordPress as its editorial system while n8n turns the day’s output into another distribution format on a fixed schedule.

That could remove several repetitive production tasks: finding the day’s stories, downloading images, checking for embedded clips, formatting headlines, building a vertical timeline, and uploading the result. Editors would still need to consider whether automated selection and presentation meet their standards, particularly for sensitive or rapidly changing stories.

The template also illustrates n8n’s wider strategy of providing reusable, multi-service workflows rather than limiting automation to simple app-to-app transfers. It follows other media-oriented examples, including the company’s AI fashion try-on template with Telegram and Discord publishing and its AI-powered design workflow template.

For small publishers, the appeal is straightforward. The workflow starts with content already stored in WordPress, uses existing images or videos where possible, and creates a repeatable path to YouTube. Because the underlying automation is visible and editable, technical teams can adapt its timing, validation rules, branding, or article-processing logic rather than treating it as a closed publishing service.

What is n8n Daily News Digest Video Generator?

n8n Daily News Digest Video Generator is a workflow template that collects the day’s WordPress articles and turns them into a vertical news video using Shotstack. It then publishes the rendered digest to YouTube automatically.

Who is the workflow intended for?

It is designed for news sites, blogs, and content teams that publish through WordPress and want to repurpose existing stories for YouTube Shorts. It is particularly relevant to teams seeking to reduce repetitive video assembly and distribution work.

How much does the template cost and when is it available?

The n8n listing marks the workflow template as available to use for free, and it is available now through the template library. The supplied sources do not specify whether connected services, including video rendering or hosting services, may carry separate usage costs.