n8n Workflow: Auto Create Faceless Shorts with Sora 2 + PostWire

Auto-Generate and Publish Faceless Shorts Daily with n8n, Sora 2, and PostWire

This n8n workflow automatically creates a fresh faceless Shorts concept every day, generates a 9:16 video with OpenAI Sora 2, and publishes it to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels via PostWire—while tracking results in Google Sheets and emailing you if anything fails.

What this workflow does

• Runs daily at 9:00 on a schedule.
• Reads your channel settings (niche, visual style, video length, and alert email) and loads previously posted topics from Google Sheets to prevent repeats.
• Uses an OpenAI chat model to select a new, non-repeating topic and generate: a Sora 2 prompt, caption idea, and a YouTube title.
• Generates a 9:16 faceless video with audio using OpenAI Sora 2, based on your configured duration.
• Publishes the video through PostWire to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels, handling platform-specific title/caption needs.
• Logs outcomes back to Google Sheets with a “published” row including the platform link—or, on failure, records the error and sends a Gmail alert with error details.

Use cases

• For SaaS operators and founders who want consistent Shorts distribution without manual editing.
• For n8n users building an automated content engine for a specific niche and visual style.
• For automation engineers who need reliable daily publishing with logging, deduping topics, and failure notifications.

Technical details

• Scheduling: runs daily at 9:00
• Integrations: OpenAI (chat + Sora 2), PostWire (YouTube/TikTok/Instagram publishing), Google Sheets (topic tracking + logging), Gmail (failure alerts)
• n8n nodes used: if, set, sticky note, aggregate, google sheets, gmail

Requires setting up a Google Sheet with columns: date, topic, network, status, link, note, plus PostWire and OpenAI credentials in n8n.