Shopify product → promo video#

Take a product page URL and produce a vertical promo video that pulls the product image(s), name, key features, and price.

When to use this skill#

• Input is a single product page URL from Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or any storefront with crawlable HTML (most stores).
• Output goal is a promo / ad / launch teaser, 30–45 s, vertical (9:16).
• The user wants Revid to extract the product details automatically. If they hand you a script instead, use revid-script-to-video.
• For a generic ad written from a product description (no live URL), use revid-product-description-to-ad.

Inputs#

FieldRequiredNotesurlyesPublic product page URLaspectRationoDefaults to 9:16``targetDurationnoDefaults to 35 (s)voiceIdnoDefault voice if omittedwebhookUrlnoSkip polling if you can receive webhooks

Step-by-step#

1. Validate the URL — must start with http(s)://. Reject obvious non-product paths ( /cart, /blog, /collections/all).
2. Optional pre-flight — fetch the URL once with HEAD to confirm it returns 200. If 4xx, ask the user to confirm the link.
3. Build the payload (see template). Defaults are tuned for product promo: high density, dynamic animation, captions ON, music ON.
4. POST /api/public/v3/render — capture the returned pid.
5. Poll /status?pid=… with the canonical loop (see Polling section below) or wait for the webhook.
6. Return { pid, status, videoUrl, thumbnailUrl, durationSeconds, creditsUsed }.

API call template#

http

POST /api/public/v3/render
Host: www.revid.ai
Content-Type: application/json
key: $REVID_API_KEY

json

{
  "workflow": "article-to-video",
  "source": {
    "url": "{PRODUCT_URL}",
    "scrapingPrompt": "Extract the product name, hero image, 3 key features, and price. Ignore reviews, related products, footer, and navigation."
  },
  "aspectRatio": "9:16",
  "voice":    { "enabled": true, "stability": 0.55, "speed": 1.05, "language": "en-US" },
  "captions": { "enabled": true, "position": "middle", "autoCrop": true },
  "music":    { "enabled": true, "syncWith": "beats", "trackName": "uplifting-pop" },
  "media": {
    "type": "stock-video",
    "density": "high",
    "animation": "dynamic",
    "quality": "pro",
    "imageModel": "good",
    "videoModel": "pro",
    "turnImagesIntoVideos": true,
    "applyStyleTransfer": false
  },
  "options": {
    "targetDuration": 35,
    "summarizationPreference": "summarize",
    "hasToGenerateCover": true,
    "coverTextType": "product-name",
    "soundEffects": true,
    "addStickers": false
  },
  "render": { "resolution": "1080p", "frameRate": 30 }
}

scrapingPrompt is the most important knob — it stops Revid from picking up header/footer junk. Customize it per storefront if you find a recurring noise pattern.

Examples#

• examples/shopify-aeropods.json — payload.
• examples/run.sh — end-to-end curl.

Quick test#

bash

URL="https://your-shop.myshopify.com/products/your-product"

curl -s https://www.revid.ai/api/public/v3/render \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "key: $REVID_API_KEY" \
  -d "$(jq --arg url "$URL" '.source.url=$url' \
        examples/shopify-aeropods.json)"

Polling#

After POST /render, poll until status === "ready":

bash

PID="<pid-from-render>"
while :; do
  R=$(curl -fsSL "https://www.revid.ai/api/public/v3/status?pid=$PID" \
        -H "key: $REVID_API_KEY")
  S=$(echo "$R" | jq -r .status)
  case "$S" in
    ready)  echo "$R" | jq .; break ;;
    failed) echo "FAILED: $R"; exit 1 ;;
    *)      sleep 5 ;;
  esac
done

In production prefer setting webhookUrl in the request body and skip polling.

Failure modes#

SymptomFixscrape failed / 403 from the URLStorefront blocks bots. Open the page in a real browser, copy the title + 3 bullet features + price into a script, and switch to revid-script-to-video.Video shows wrong product imageStorefront serves SSR via JS only. Pass media.useOnlyProvided: true and media.provided: [{ url: "<hero-image-url>", type: "image" }] to force the right asset.Voice sounds roboticIncrease voice.stability to 0.7 and pick a specific voice.voiceId. Default voice varies.Duration overshoots targetSet options.summarizationPreference: "summarize" (already in the template) and lower targetDuration.Captions cover productcaptions.position: "top" (or "bottom").

See also#

• revid-product-description-to-ad if you don't have a live URL.
• revid-script-with-custom-media if you want to control every visual.
• revid-api-foundations for the contract.