Q: Auto upload from Google Drive to Ai video editor app then download to Google Drive
I would like a process to be run whenever I upload a new video file (mp4) to a google drive folder to trigger a workflow where the video file is uploaded to a web based social media AI editing tool for app to run through an automated editing process of the video (adding captions etc.) then download the video back to a google drive folder or potentially preparing it to be uploaded to post to various social media platforms. How would you suggest this workflow to be done with RTILA? Thank you
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Nov 15, 2024A: Hello Mike
This workflow is very interesting and doable with RTILA but that will be a lot of work and complexity if you only involve RTILA. Here are what I suggest you do:
1) Instead of a Google Drive you could use a cheap FTP hosting/VPS which will be faster and more freedom to deal with your files and RTILA has an FTP upload/download command. Also on this hosting/VPS you could run a simple script that for each new media file uploaded then call/kick-off an RTILA Cloud bot/API.
2) The upload/download to/from the web based social media AI editing tool should be straight forward unless they have some advanced anti-bot protections. The edited file is saved back to your FTP with its filename appended with Xfilename-edited.mp4 for example
3) For the social media part it would be a big time saver if you use an existing social media posting solution. You could even create a WordPress blog article featuring your video and post that blog URL to various social media channels and accounts.
Now if you want to still use Google Drive then you could use Zapier for the start of this automation and then for the part with the web based social media AI editing tool you can kick off an RTILA Cloud bot from Zapier and then finalize the flow in Zapier.
mikep7PLUSThank you my friend. I currently have a windows laptop i am utilizing as a server where I have a python and selenium script running for another automation script i have running weekly. I'm thinking that same machine could run as the FTP/VPS solution?
mikep7PLUSquestion here or update....if the web app i am using has a direct integration with google drive how could this process be triggered and used w/ RTILA? 1). MP4 video created and uploaded to google drive. 2) Web app sees new updated file in Google Drive folder. 3) mp4 uploaded to web app for processing 4) once web app is complete mp4 file is downloaded to Google Drive folder 5) new mp4 posted online
mikep7PLUSany update to my additional questions?
Sorry we missed this follow question it did not appear as "Unread comment". For G-Drive you have 2 ways:
1) You create a scheduled bot that can check the google drive every X Min/Hours/Days for new video files and if new file found (checked against a Google Sheet history list) & kick off the video flow.
2) Using our API Bridge custom command we did for Google Sheet we could adapt it to use G-Drive