amazon-affiliate-autopilot

End-to-end pipeline that turns Amazon affiliate products into AI talking-head Shorts — one consistent host, one product per video, affiliate funnel through theluxedrawer.com/p/<slug> → YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and X.

Each pipeline stage is a slash-command skill — idempotent, manifest-driven, and accepts a single slug, a comma-list, or --all-needing.

The Character

A pinned character folder defines the host. Same face, same voice across every Short.

Lifestyle Frames

Examples of starting frames across different products.

Pipeline

Authoritative ordering lives in .claude/skills/PIPELINE.md. Twelve stages, grouped into four phases.

Asset gathering

1. Character refs Pin a host face + voice per channel under characters/<channel>/ — same identity across every Short.

2. Scrape Amazon extensions/amazon-product-page-scraper/ Chrome ext pulls link + details + main image into a Downloads dump.

3. Import scraped data /import-referral-data Converts the scrape dump into products/<slug>/manifest.json. Filters <10% commission, dedupes by ASIN.

Scripting

4. Video-gen prompt /generate-video-prompt Authors the image-to-video animation prompt and writes it to manifest["video-prompt"].

5. Narration script /write-script 15–20s podcast-tone voiceover into script-raw-text. "Listen, your cleanser matters way more than people give it credit for…"

6. Narration audio /generate-narration ElevenLabs TTS with the channel voice pinned per character.

Video generation

7. Starting frame /generate-starting-image Hedra image-gen → 9:16 lifestyle composite of the host holding the product.

06-raw-speaker-video.mp4 8. UGC talking head /generate-hedra-video Starting image + narration → Hedra Avatar. Audio baked low-quality — fixed next step.

07-stitched-narration.mp4 9. Audio restitch /stitch-narration (ffmpeg) Swap Hedra's baked audio for the clean local ElevenLabs mp3.

Post-production & distribution

08-captioned-video.mp4 10. Captions /caption-video WhisperX word-level transcription + auto-picked style preset, scored against the background.

09-final-with-music.mp4 11. Background music /overlay-music Ducked random track from music/, fade-in / fade-out under the narration.

12. Upload /upload-ad Pushes the final mp4 to every configured platform, generates per-platform metadata, writes URLs back to manifest["uploads"]. YouTube + X live; Meta + Pinterest in progress.

Supporting skill: /import-music — ingest local mp4 recordings into the music/ library that stage 11 picks from.

The Storefront

Every CTA across every platform funnels through theluxedrawer.com — our Next.js site (website/) owns the redirect to Amazon, so we control routing, analytics, and link rot.

Published Examples

One product, four platforms — picked from products/amika-aura-hair-and-body-mist.../manifest.json:

Platform	URL
YouTube	https://youtu.be/8ukBc7rg9KE
Instagram	https://www.instagram.com/reels/DYSevZwAoJL/
Facebook	https://www.facebook.com/reel/2731583150551450
X	https://x.com/theluxedrawer/status/2054224433208840328

What the same product looks like once it lands on each social platform:

Instagram

Facebook

X

Layout

Path	Purpose
characters/	Per-channel character refs + pinned voice (the host identity)
extensions/amazon-product-page-scraper/	Chrome extension — scrapes Amazon product pages into a Downloads dump
extensions/youtube-paid-promo-flagger/	Chrome extension — flips the YouTube "paid promotion" toggle automatically
products/	Per-product folders — manifest + all generated media (gitignored)
hedra/	Hedra API client — starting-image + Avatar video generation
narration/	ElevenLabs TTS generation
captioning/	WhisperX transcription + word-level caption renderer + style presets
music/	Background music library — <adjective>-<animal>.mp3 (gitignored)
scripts/	Per-stage CLIs: import_music, stitch_narration, overlay_music, upload_ad, status, credits, script_lint, sanitize_slugs, apply_scripts
uploader/	Per-platform upload CLIs — youtube/, meta/ (Instagram + Facebook), pinterest/, x/
website/	Public Next.js site — theluxedrawer.com. Hosts the /p/<slug> product pages that every video CTA funnels through
dashboard/	Private Next.js dashboard — Supabase-backed pipeline analytics + per-product status
assets/	Branding + character assets (gitignored)
.claude/skills/	Slash-command wrappers for every pipeline stage
docs/	Channel strategy, niche, compliance rules, per-platform upload playbooks

Stack

• Starting frame + talking head: Hedra (image-gen + Character-3 avatar)
• TTS: ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5 (channel voice pinned per character)
• Audio restitch: ffmpeg (swap Hedra's baked audio for the clean ElevenLabs mp3)
• Captions: WhisperX word-level transcription + local caption renderer with auto-picked style presets
• Background music: local music/ library, ducked under narration
• Upload:
  • YouTube — Data API v3 via uploader/youtube/upload.py
  • X — v2 API via uploader/x/upload.py
  • Instagram + Facebook — Graph API via uploader/meta/ (in progress)
  • Pinterest — Pinterest API via uploader/pinterest/ (in progress)
• Funnel: theluxedrawer.com/p/<slug> (Next.js) → Amazon affiliate link. Every platform CTA points at our site so we control the redirect.

Compliance

• Every description: "As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases."
• YouTube "paid promotion" toggle ON for every Short (automated by extensions/youtube-paid-promo-flagger/)
• Affiliate funnel in the first line of the description on every platform (Shorts can't link in-video)
• All distribution channels stay public
• Per-platform upload playbooks live in docs/upload-meta.md, docs/upload-pinterest.md, docs/upload-x.md