Automated Lumen5 Blog to Video Drafts
Every Monday, WebRun opens Lumen5, takes each article published on your blog last week, builds it into a draft video on your brand template using media from your library, logs the draft and its source article in Airtable, and posts the week's queue to Notion for the editor to finish.
How do I turn blog posts into video drafts every week?
WebRun turns your published writing into video every Monday. It opens Lumen5, builds a draft from each article published last week on your brand template and media library, logs each draft against its source article in Airtable, and posts the queue to Notion, so the editor only has to edit.
- Every published article gets a video draft, without anyone remembering
- Drafts arrive already on the brand template and kit
- Skipped articles are logged with a reason instead of vanishing
Built for content marketers · social media teams · agencies · in-house video editors
What does WebRun do on every run?
The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.
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WebRun signs in and gets to work
Opens
lumen5.comin a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys. -
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Lumen5 - build a draft per article
lumen5.com
WebRun opens Lumen5 to build a draft per article. - Open Lumen5 and start a new video from each article published last week
- Apply your brand kit so colours, fonts and logo are right from the start
- Use the template you have set for blog to video
- Pull supporting clips and images from your media library where the scene needs them
- Leave every video as an unpublished draft. WebRun never exports or publishes one
Done when Each article from last week has a draft video on the brand template.
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Airtable - log the drafts
airtable.com
WebRun opens Airtable to log the drafts. - Add a row per draft with the article title, its link and the Lumen5 draft link
- Record the template used and the number of scenes built
- Mark any article that was skipped and why, for example too short to storyboard
- Skip articles already turned into a draft in a previous week
Done when Every draft and every skipped article is recorded in Airtable.
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Notion - post the editor's queue
notion.so
WebRun opens Notion to post the editor's queue. - Post this week's video queue with a link to each draft and its source article
- Order them so the highest priority article sits first
- Note that every video is a draft awaiting an editor, never scheduled or published
Done when The editor opens Monday to a queue of drafts to finish.
How is each run configured?
Secure by default
Connect once, stays signed in
WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.
Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.
Questions, answered
Will it publish the videos anywhere?
No. Every video is left as an unpublished Lumen5 draft. Exporting, scheduling, and posting to a channel all stay with your editor.
Will the drafts look on brand?
Yes. WebRun applies your brand kit and the template you have set for blog to video, so colours, fonts and logo are already right before the editor opens it.
What if an article does not suit video?
WebRun records it as skipped in Airtable with the reason, so nothing disappears silently and you can pull it back into the queue by hand.
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