Automated n8n Lead Gen Video Workflow: Tavily + OpenAI + HeyGen

Automated n8n Lead Gen Video Workflow That Publishes News-to-Short-Ads (Tavily + OpenAI + HeyGen)

Turn fresh n8n updates into ready-to-post vertical lead-gen videos—automatically. This scheduled n8n workflow searches the web for recent n8n-related news with Tavily, uses OpenAI to generate industry-specific customer-acquisition ideas and Chinese/English scripts, renders videos with HeyGen, uploads them to Google Drive, and sends a Telegram status message with links.

What this workflow does

• Runs every weekday at 10:00 (server timezone set to Asia/Shanghai).
• Chooses a focus industry based on the day of the week, including industry pain points and audience context.
• Searches recent n8n content (last 7 days) using the Tavily Search API and formats top results into a concise briefing.
• Uses OpenAI to produce three practical, low-cost automation lead-generation solutions tailored to that industry.
• Creates Chinese short-video scripts (55–60 seconds) from those solutions, then performs an OpenAI-based quality review.
• Localizes scripts to English for TikTok/Reels, and cleans Chinese text for natural text-to-speech reading.
• Generates vertical videos in HeyGen, waits 5 minutes, fetches each video status and download URL.
• Uploads videos to Google Drive and posts a Telegram summary with links and pass/fail result.

Use cases

• SaaS operators who want consistent short-form lead-gen content tied to current n8n trends.
• Automation engineers building a repeatable “news → scripts → videos → distribution” pipeline.
• Teams testing multilingual marketing workflows (Chinese + localized English) with automated QA.

Technical details (n8n integrations)

• Schedule trigger (weekday 10:00, Asia/Shanghai)
• Tavily Search API via HTTP Request
• OpenAI for briefing analysis, solution generation, scriptwriting, localization prep, and quality scoring
• HeyGen API for video creation, status retrieval, and download URL fetching
• Google Drive upload via workflow nodes
• Telegram for automated run summary and results
• Includes Code and Wait nodes for formatting and timing control