🎬 Viral Content & Story Engine | Shorts & Blog Generator

The continuous content generation backend for AI bloggers, YouTube Shorts creators, TikTok accounts, and newsletter editors.

Automatically scrapes verified viral story hooks, AskReddit dilemmas, mind-blowing TIL facts, and high-engagement tech narratives formatted directly for AI video/blog scripting.

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💎 Why Creators & App Developers Need This Actor

Coming up with engaging topics daily leads to creator burnout. This Actor supplies an endless stream of validated, viral social narratives for just $0.002 per story.

• 🔥 Proven Engagement: Sourced directly from top viral threads on Hacker News, r/AskReddit, r/todayilearned, and r/nosleep.
• ⚡ 60-Second Shorts Ready: Each record includes an estimated reading duration, attention hook, and condensed synopsis.
• 📱 Automated Publishing Backend: Connect via Apify API or Webhooks to feed your automated WordPress blog, Substack newsletter, or CapCut/HeyGen video workflow.
• 📊 Multi-Format Export: Instant export to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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🚀 How to Use

1. Viral Story Source: Select All Sources, Hacker News, AskReddit, or Today I Learned.
2. Minimum Score / Upvotes: Filter by social proof threshold (e.g. 50 or 200).
3. Max Stories Limit: Set count of records to extract.
4. Click "Start" to stream viral scripting ideas into your dataset.

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📦 Output Data Sample

{
  "story_id": "hn_41478920",
  "title": "I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s",
  "source": "Hacker News",
  "content_text": "An intriguing retrospective on 90s cryptographic infrastructure and breaking legacy RSA keys...",
  "summary": "Viral trending tech discussion with 128 points and 26 comments on Hacker News.",
  "score": 128,
  "comments_count": 26,
  "source_url": "https://mcpherrin.ca/2026/09/07/rsa.html",
  "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478920",
  "tags": [
    "Tech",
    "Security",
    "ViralHook"
  ],
  "estimated_reading_time_sec": 75,
  "extracted_at": "2026-09-08T03:35:00Z"
}

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💰 Pricing: Pay-Per-Event

• Price: $0.002 per extracted viral story record.
• Generate 1,000 viral video/blog topics for just $2.00.
• Pay only for actual stories extracted.