Clone viral TikTok & Instagram reels with Apify and Gemini 2.5 Pro

Reverse engineer short-form videos from Instagram and TikTok using Gemini AI

Who's it for

Content creators, AI video enthusiasts, and digital marketers who want to analyze successful short-form videos and understand their production techniques. Perfect for anyone looking to reverse-engineer viral content or create detailed prompts for AI video generation tools like Google Veo or Sora.

How it works

This automation takes any Instagram Reel or TikTok URL and performs a forensic analysis of the video content. The workflow downloads the video, converts it to base64, and uses Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro vision API to generate an extremely detailed "Generative Manifest" - a comprehensive prompt that could be used to recreate the video with AI tools.

The analysis includes: - Visual medium identification (film stock, camera sensor, lens characteristics) - Color grading and lighting breakdown - Shot-by-shot deconstruction with precise timing - Camera movement and framing details - Subject description and action choreography - Environmental and atmospheric details

How to set up

1. Configure API credentials: - Add your Apify API key for video scraping - Set up Google Gemini API authentication