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Who’s it for
This workflow is ideal for:
- Content creators producing daily historical or educational videos
- YouTube automation enthusiasts building AI-driven channels
- Educators sharing engaging historical facts in short-form video format
- Anyone creating an automated AI video pipeline with human approval
How it works
This workflow automates the full pipeline of generating and publishing historical videos:
- Triggers daily at 1 AM and initializes retry tracking (maximum 3 attempts)
- Fetches historical events for the current date and selects one randomly
- Uses Google Gemini to generate a cinematic text-to-video script
- Sends the prompt to fal.ai (Hunyuan LoRA) to generate a short video
- Polls the generation status every 30 seconds until the video is ready
- Downloads the generated video and sends it to Telegram with context
- Waits for manual approval via Telegram
- If approved → uploads the video to YouTube and sends a confirmation message
- If declined → retries with a new event (up to 3 attempts total)
How to set up
- Import the workflow into n8n
- Configure your Telegram credentials
- Set your Telegram Chat ID using a variable or Set node (avoid hardcoding)
- Configure HTTP Header Auth credentials for fal.ai (API key required)
- Set up Google Gemini API credentials
- Connect your YouTube account using OAuth2
- (Optional) Adjust the schedule time in the trigger node
- Activate the workflow
Requirements
- n8n (cloud or self-hosted)
- fal.ai account and API key (for video generation)
- Google Gemini API access
- YouTube account with upload permissions
- Telegram account for approval notifications
How to customize the workflow
- Adjust retry limits in the retry logic node
- Modify video parameters (resolution, frames, aspect ratio) in the fal.ai request
- Change the script style by editing the Gemini prompt
- Replace the historical events API with another content source
- Customize Telegram messages or approval flow