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

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

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

{
  "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

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":

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

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.