Shopify Product Promo

Turn a Shopify (or any e-commerce) product page URL into a 30–45 second 9:16 promo video ready for TikTok / Reels / Shorts. Use when the user shares a product link and wants a short ad/promo, not a long-form review.

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

Field	Required	Notes
url	yes	Public product page URL
aspectRatio	no	Defaults to 9:16
targetDuration	no	Defaults to 35 (s)
voiceId	no	Default voice if omitted
webhookUrl	no	Skip 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

Symptom	Fix
scrape failed / 403 from the URL	Storefront 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 image	Storefront 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 robotic	Increase voice.stability to 0.7 and pick a specific voice.voiceId. Default voice varies.
Duration overshoots target	Set options.summarizationPreference: "summarize" (already in the template) and lower targetDuration.
Captions cover product	captions.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.