Open source · Self-hosted

The easiest way to turn your RSS feed into social videos

Point it at your blog's feed. Vidfiddle writes the scripts, makes the videos, writes the posts and puts them on your calendar. One post at a time, or the whole feed at once.

No subscription. No credits. No watermark. You pay OpenAI about six cents a video.

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Your feed. Your keys. Your server. Your videos.

NOAA · RSS

El Nino looms large over U.S. Winter Outlook

New post

Clay

NASA · RSS

Halloween Aboard the International Space Station

New post

Felt diorama

Install

Up and running in four commands

You need Docker and an OpenAI key. There’s no Vidfiddle account, and nothing to pay us.

Your install never phones home. It talks to your feeds and the services you give it keys for, and that’s it.

MIT license
One OpenAI key
About $0.06 a video
Intel or ARM

$ git clone https://github.com/zellerhaus/vidfiddle.git
$ cd vidfiddle
$ cp .env.example .env   # add your OpenAI key and a password
$ docker compose up -d

Pulls the published image (Intel or ARM) and starts the app, the worker and Postgres.

$ docker run -d -p 3000:3000 \
    -v vidfiddle:/data --env-file .env \
    ghcr.io/zellerhaus/vidfiddle node scripts/start-all.mjs

For Railway, PikaPods or Unraid: app and worker in one container. Bring a Postgres and set DATABASE_URL in .env.

$ git clone https://github.com/zellerhaus/vidfiddle.git && cd vidfiddle
$ npm ci
$ OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... npx tsx scripts/render-video.ts \
    --script post.txt --out video.mp4

Any script to an MP4, no app or database. Needs Node 22+ and an ffmpeg with libass.

How it works

From feed to calendar

Step 1: RSS feed
Paste your feed’s URL and every post shows up in Vidfiddle, ready to pick. No feed? A single blog URL works too.
Step 2: Scripts
Vidfiddle reads the post and writes a 30 to 60 second script in your brand voice. A long post can turn into a few videos, each from a different angle.
Script length30 to 60 sec
Step 3: Videos
Pick a look from the presets or describe your own. Then a voice, and a shape: vertical, square or wide. Your own server makes the rest (art for every scene, narration, captions timed to each word, a music bed). Thirty seconds costs about six cents.
About$0.06per 30-second video
Step 4: Social posts
It writes a caption for each platform, so LinkedIn never gets your TikTok hashtags.
- Instagram
- TikTok
- YouTube
- LinkedIn
- X
- Facebook
Step 5: Scheduled
Approve the video and it goes on your calendar through Publer, Postiz or TryPost. Nothing posts until you say so.
Approved

Or the whole feed

Your blog already wrote your next 100 videos

Turn on Auto Mode for a feed. Vidfiddle watches it for new posts, makes up to five videos from each one and writes the captions. Then it waits for you. Approve a video and it’s scheduled on the platforms you picked for that feed. Sitting on a backlog? Schedule every finished video with one click.

Up to 5 videos per post
Captions for every platform
Approve once, it’s scheduled
Schedule all in one click

The Add RSS Feed dialog with Auto Mode on, 3 videos per post, and Instagram, TikTok and YouTube picked

Your feed

8 new posts

Auto Mode

01RSS
02Scripts
03Videos
04Social
05Scheduled

This week

8 scheduled

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Instagram

TikTok

YouTube

Facebook

Instagram

TikTok

Works with

Plays well with others

RSSYour feed
Any blog URLOne post
OpenAIScripts, art, voice
ClaudeScripts, captions
ElevenLabsVoices, music
CreatifyAvatars, optional
ffmpegRendering

PublerScheduler
PostizScheduler
TryPostScheduler
InstagramPlatform
TikTokPlatform
YouTubePlatform
LinkedInPlatform
XPlatform
FacebookPlatform
S3, R2, B2Storage

Made with Vidfiddle

Eight posts, eight looks

Each of these started as a NASA or NOAA article in a public RSS feed. Vidfiddle wrote the script and made the video; nobody touched an editor. Tap Receipt to see what went in and what it cost.

$0.46for all 8 videos

Photoreal
Receipt · NASA
NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found
Look
cinematic photorealistic, dramatic rim light, shallow depth of field
Voice
onyx
Format
9:16 · 27.6s
Render
32s
“A rock found in the Sahara could unlock the secrets of ancient Mars...”
Cost$0.044
Felt diorama
Receipt · NASA
Halloween Aboard the International Space Station
Look
handmade stop-motion felt diorama, soft studio lighting, playful
Voice
fable
Format
9:16 · 28.8s
Render
39s
“What happens when Halloween goes to space? ...”
Cost$0.086
Deep space
Receipt · NASA
Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA’s Hubble, Webb
Look
deep-space astrophotography, rich teal and amber nebula colors
Voice
sage
Format
16:9 · 35s
Render
42s
“A ghostly cat is hiding in space... and its glowing eye may be a newborn star.”
Cost$0.047
Sci-fi paperback
Receipt · NASA
Send Your Name to Titan Aboard NASA’s Dragonfly Mission
Look
1970s sci-fi paperback cover illustration, bold gouache colors, film grain
Voice
nova
Format
9:16 · 29.9s
Render
42s
“Want your name to fly to Saturn’s largest moon? ... NASA can make it happen.”
Cost$0.056
Watercolor
Receipt · NOAA
Large-scale marine debris: 4 ways to clean up the big stuff
Look
loose watercolor illustration on textured paper, ocean blues
Voice
coral
Format
9:16 · 30.3s
Render
41s
“How do you pull a sunken bridge out of the ocean? ... With some seriously creative cleanup.”
Cost$0.045
Flat vector
Receipt · NOAA
Saildrone research fleet to circle Antarctica for 5 years
Look
bold flat vector illustration, limited palette of navy, orange and white
Voice
ash
Format
1:1 · 35.8s
Render
41s
“What if robot sailors could unlock Antarctica’s climate secrets?”
Cost$0.069
Paper-cut
Receipt · NOAA
A toothy summer in Charleston: My internship studying barium in bottlenose dolphin teeth to determine freshwater exposure
Look
layered paper-cut collage, warm coastal colors, visible paper texture
Voice
shimmer
Format
9:16 · 31.9s
Render
41s
“What can a dolphin’s tooth reveal about its past? ... More than you’d think.”
Cost$0.056
Clay
Receipt · NOAA
El Nino looms large over U.S. Winter Outlook
Look
glossy 3D clay render, miniature diorama, soft shadows
Voice
echo
Format
9:16 · 32.4s
Render
44s
“El Niño could reshape your winter... but not everyone will feel it the same way.”
Cost$0.056

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Also in the box

Already built

Pacing
Slow, medium or fast: a new shot about every 8, 4 or 2 to 3 seconds. Same price at every pace.
Music
Tracks matched to the script’s mood and ducked under the voice. Narration is leveled to -14 LUFS, the loudness social apps expect.
Bring your own tracks, or let ElevenLabs compose one per video.
Your pick of models
Scripts and captions from OpenAI or Claude. Voices from OpenAI or ElevenLabs. Each one is a setting.
Storage
Media on local disk, or in any S3-compatible bucket (R2, B2, S3).
Creatify
Want stock footage or AI avatars instead? Plug in Creatify.
Paid and optional.
Engine on its own
Render any script to an MP4 from the command line, without the app or a database.
Handy for trying a look before you add a feed.

Shipping

What’s new

All releases

v0.2.2
Nov 4, 2026
Fixes logging in over plain HTTP.
- You can log in from another machine on your network again
Release notes
v0.2.1
Nov 3, 2026
Fixes reposts.
- Reposts are tracked again
Release notes
v0.2.0
Nov 2, 2026
Adds two open source schedulers and a published Docker image, and drops the YouTube clips feature.
- Publish through Postiz or TryPost
- A published image
- One-container mode
Release notes

Want to hear about the next one? On GitHub, click Watch, then Custom, then Releases.

Who made this

Hi, I’m Preston

I built Vidfiddle for myself earlier this year. I had blog posts just sitting there, and I wanted them turned into videos I could schedule out to fill in my social calendar. It’s been a big help, so now it’s open source.

Why give it away? I’d rather it get used. I also build things like this for clients at Zellerhaus, so if you want a content pipeline built or tuned for your team, get in touch.

Work with me

Built to be fiddled with

Every stage of the video engine is a small interface. ElevenLabs voices took one class. Pexels footage could be next. Fork it, break it, send a pull request.

Scene planning
Voice
Images
Word timing
Your provider here

If Vidfiddle saves you an afternoon, a star helps other people find it.

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The easiest way to turn your RSS feed into social videos

Up and running in four commands

Step 1: RSS feed

Step 2: Scripts

Step 3: Videos

Step 4: Social posts

Step 5: Scheduled

Your blog already wrote your next 100 videos

Plays well with others

Eight posts, eight looks

Already built

Pacing

Music

Your pick of models

Storage

Creatify

Engine on its own

What’s new

v0.2.2

v0.2.1

v0.2.0

Hi, I’m Preston

Built to be fiddled with