7 Clone Viral Reels with AI Avatar

Description

This fully automated AI Avatar Reel Repurposing system lets you take any Instagram Reel and instantly transform it into your own branded AI avatar video, WITHOUT having to film or edit yourself. It combines content analysis, script rewriting, and HeyGen AI avatars to download reels, rewrite scripts and captions into a short 30-second format, regenerate the video with your chosen avatar and voice, and automatically post across every major social media platform including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter/X, and Threads. Everything runs end-to-end in the background, so you only paste a link, and the system handles downloading, rewriting, recording, and publishing your content every single day.

Platforms

n8n	Make	Zapier

Templates

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Hyqe_JVSuLZ59JrKTOBbN4GaXwwoAxnk?usp=drive_link

Tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdKqEkdvlgQ

Overview

Here’s how the automation works:

1. Trigger: Airtable Input

* Paste the Instagram Reel link into the `ReelURL` column (optional: add a `BackgroundURL`).

2. Reel Processing

- Transcribe the Reel audio

- Rewrite into ~30 seconds of spoken text

- Generate SEO-optimized caption

- Create a viral overlay sentence for attention, that can be used as the title

3. Trigger 2: Human Approval

- Edit or approve the Script, Caption, and Overlay in Airtable

- Check the `Approved` box to confirm content is ready

4. Create Avatar Video

- Call Heygen API (requires paid API plan), specifying your avatar ID and voice ID

- Create avatar video, optionally passing in an image/video background if you have a green screen avatar

5. Get Video

- Wait awhile, then fetch completed avatar video

- Upload final version to Blotato

6. Publish to Social Media

- Connect Blotato to your social accounts

- Choose your social accounts

- Either post immediately or schedule for later

Setup

• Ensure you have "Verified Community Nodes" enabled in your n8n Admin Panel. Then, install "Blotato" and "Apify" verified community node.

• Airtable Create a free account, then visit the Personal Access Token Page and create a new key (make sure to add data.records:read, data.records:write, schema.bases:read in Scopes and add your base in Access). Then create Airtable credential. Clone this Airtable Database. Copy your newly made Airtable Database URL and paste it in both Airtable Triggers under Base URL and Table URL.

• Blotato Sign up on Blotato, then go to Dashboard → API Keys to create your key. Then create Blotato credential.

• Apify Create a free account, then visit Account → Integrations → API Tokens to generate your token. Then create Apify credential.

• OpenAI Create a free account, then go to the API Keys page and create a new key. Then create OpenAI credential.

• HeyGen_API Sign up and visit the API access page to request an API key. Then paste the generated API Key under HeyGen_API in the Setup Node.

• Avatar_ID After creating/choosing an avatar in HeyGen, go to Avatars in the dashboard → copy the avatar ID from the developer panel. Then paste the Avatar ID under Avatar_ID in the Setup Node.

• Voice_ID In the HeyGen Voices section, select your desired voice and copy its ID from the developer panel or API docs. Then paste the Voice ID under Voice_ID in the Setup Node.

• Follow the 3 setup instruction in BROWN sticky notes in this template.

• If you want a background image/video behind your avatar, also add a publicly accessible link to the Background Video on Airtable Database in the field BackgroundURL. I only recommend doing this AFTER the full workflow is operational.

Tips & Tricks

• While testing: enable only 1 social platform, and deactivate the rest for testing purposes. Update the AI agent node’s prompt to return a 5-second script, rather than 30 seconds, to reduce the processing duration.

• Go to Heygen and check that your avatar video is being processed.

• After the workflow finishes, check your social media account for the final post.

• If successful, then enable another social media node, and continue testing.

• Update prompt to match your niche / industry

Troubleshooting

• Sometimes the Apify Scraper fails, let it loop to try again (usually works 2nd time)

• OpenAI API account must have billing funded

• make sure you copied your avatar ID correctly, not the group avatar ID

• If your script is long, it takes more time for your video to finish

If you need help troubleshooting your automation:

• the API Dashboard is your best friend

• go to Blotato and click the ORANGE BUTTON in the bottom right corner to send me a message

Other helpful links:

👉 Blotato API Docs

✅ Troubleshoot Errors

📷 Media Requirements

n8n Notes

1. Install the Blotato community node. Open your n8n instance’s Admin Panel and enable Verified Community Nodes, then open any workflow.

2. Click “+” to add a node, search for Blotato, then install it.

3. If a template shows question marks instead of my pink manatee logo, enable Verified Community Nodes first, install the Blotato node, then re-import the n8n template.

4. Create a new Credential in n8n. Go to Blotato Settings > API > Copy API Key. Paste the API key in n8n, save, test, then select this credential on Blotato nodes.

5. Connect social accounts on each platform node. Open each Blotato Publish node, select the Blotato credential, then pick your social account.

6. When testing, deactivate all social platform nodes. Activate just 1 to start with. Run the workflow, then Pin data at the UPLOAD to BLotato node. This locks inputs for repeat tests. Then, execute 1 platform node from pinned data to validate it works. Activate other social platforms to continue testing.

7. Use the Blotato API dashboard to review each request, payload, and error message.

Make Notes

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Zapier Notes

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