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How to Generate Short-Form Social Media Videos (100% Automated)?

This end-to-end automation uses DeepSeek AI and Make.com to fully automate social media video creation and publishing. It scrapes trending articles in real time, generates video scripts with AI, creates narrated videos with subtitles, and auto-posts them to platforms like YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok — all without manual input.

The workflow runs on a schedule inside Make.com. It finds trending content in your niche, sends it to DeepSeek AI to write a short video script, generates a narrated video with subtitles, and publishes to multiple social platforms simultaneously. The entire pipeline runs in the cloud with zero ongoing effort once configured.

Ideal for marketers, content creators, and agencies who want a consistent daily posting cadence without spending hours on content creation. The 63-node Make.com scenario handles everything from research to final upload.

What are the key features?

  • Scrapes trending articles and news in real time for fresh content ideas.
  • Uses DeepSeek AI to generate short, engaging video scripts from trending topics.
  • Creates narrated videos with AI-generated voiceover and subtitles.
  • Auto-publishes to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok.
  • Runs on a schedule inside Make.com with zero manual intervention once set up.
  • 63-node Make.com scenario covering the full pipeline from research to upload.
  • Customisable niche and topic filters to match your brand and audience.

What are the benefits?

  • Save 2 to 4 hours per day on content creation and posting.
  • Maintain a consistent daily posting cadence across 5 or more platforms.
  • Reach new audiences with trending, timely content generated automatically.
  • Reduce content production costs compared to hiring a video editor.
  • Scale your social media presence without adding headcount.

How do you set it up?

  1. Import the Make.com scenario JSON file into your Make.com account by going to Scenarios, clicking the three-dot menu, and selecting Import Blueprint.
  2. You will need accounts with Make.com and DeepSeek AI. See the Tools Required section above for links.
  3. Configure the trending content source module with your niche keywords and preferred news sources.
  4. Connect your DeepSeek AI API key in the AI script generation module.
  5. Set up the video generation module with your preferred voiceover settings, subtitle style, and video dimensions for short-form content.
  6. Connect your YouTube account and configure the YouTube Shorts upload module with your channel details.
  7. Connect your Instagram account for Reels publishing. You will need a Facebook Business account linked to your Instagram.
  8. Connect your LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok accounts in their respective upload modules.
  9. Set the Schedule trigger to run at your preferred posting time, for example once per day at 9 AM.
  10. Run the scenario manually once to test. Check that a video is generated with correct subtitles and uploaded to at least one platform.
  11. Review the generated video on each platform to confirm formatting, captions, and aspect ratio are correct.
  12. Enable the scenario to run automatically on your chosen schedule.

Tools Required

make.com

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Free, up to 1000 credits / mo

DeepSeek

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$0.035/1M input tokens (cache hit), $0.135/1M input tokens (cache miss), $0.550/1M output tokens

Facebook

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Free: $0 (no API usage fees; subject to rate limits)

Instagram

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Free: $0 (no published pricing; API access available at no charge, subject to rate limits)

LinkedIn

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Self-serve developer products (e.g., Sign In with LinkedIn, Share on LinkedIn): $0; Partner/Marketing APIs require approval and have no public pricing.

YouTube

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Free: $0, default quota 10,000 units/day

Credits:
Created by Leon Petrou

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