How to create a news video summary for Instagram

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            "description": "NASA warns that a 65-foot wide asteroid will be coming dangerously close to the Earth today, November 26. Know the consequences that a gigantic asteroid has.",
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            "author": "Sean Liddick, Artemis Spyrou",
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            "description": "A physics experiment in Michigan could provide new insights into the fundamental nature of the universe",
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}

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require "vendor/autoload.php";

use JSON2Video\Scene;
use JSON2Video\Movie;

$json2video_apikey = "---- YOUR JSON2VIDEO API KEY HERE ----";
$newsapi_apikey = "---- YOUR NEWSAPI API KEY HERE ----";

// Get the news from the API
$news_api_url = "https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?category=science&country=us&apiKey=" . $newsapi_apikey;

$api_response = @file_get_contents($news_api_url);

$api_json = json_decode($api_response, true);
if (!$api_json) {
    echo $api_response, PHP_EOL;
    die("Error reading NewsAPI: " . $news_api_url);
}

// Parse the response and create the news source
$articles = [];
$num_articles = 0;

foreach ($api_json["articles"] as $article) {

    // Bypass any URL that includes ".gif"
    if (empty($article["urlToImage"])) continue;
    if (strpos($article["urlToImage"], ".gif")!==false) continue;

    // Remove anything from " - " and after
    $source_position = strpos($article["title"], " - ");
    if ($source_position!==false) $headline = substr($article["title"], 0, $source_position);
    else $headline = $article["title"];

    // Convert to human readible date
    $human_date = date("M jS", strtotime($article["publishedAt"]));

    // Add a new article to the list
    $articles[] = [
        "headline" => $headline,
        "date" => $human_date,
        "image" => $article["urlToImage"],
        "source" => $article["source"]["name"]
    ];

    // Limit the number of articles in the list
    $num_articles++;
    if ($num_articles>=6) break;
}


// Create a new movie
$movie = new Movie;

// Set your API key
// Get your free API key at https://json2video.com
$movie->setAPIKey($json2video_apikey);

// Set movie quality: low, medium, high
$movie->quality = "high";

// Create video as a final video (without watermark)
$movie->draft = false;

// Set movie dimensions for an Instagram story
$movie_width = 607;
$movie_height = 1080;
$margin = "4vw";

$movie->width = $movie_width;
$movie->height = $movie_height;


// Intro bumper 
$intro = new Scene;

$intro->addElement([
    "type" => "component",
    "component" => "basic/052",
    "settings" => [
        "card" => [
            "vertical-align" => "center",
            "horizontal-align" => "center"
        ],
        "section" => [
            "text" => "SCIENCE",
            "font-family" => "Inter",
            "font-weight" => "700"
        ],
        "headline" => [
            "text" => "TODAY",
            "font-family" => "Inter",
            "font-weight" => "700"
        ]
    ]
]);
$intro->duration = 6;

$movie->addScene($intro);


// Create an scene for each article

foreach ($articles as $key => $article) {
    
    $scene =  new Scene;

    $scene->addElement([
        "type" => "component",
        "component" => "advanced/100",
        "settings" => [
            "image" => [
                "src" => $article["image"],
                "final_left" => "0%",
                "final_width" => "100%",
                "duration" => 0.5
            ]
        ]
    ]);

    // Add the headline at the bottom using the 011 style
    $scene->addElement([
        "type" => "text",
        "style" => "011",
        "text" => $article["headline"],
        "settings" => [
            "vertical-position" => "bottom",
            "horizontal-position" => "left",
            "text-align" => "left",
            "margin" => $margin,
            "font-size" => "8vw",
            "font-family" => "Inter",
            "font-weight" => "700",
            "background-color" => "black"
        ],
        "cache" => false
    ]);

    // Add the publisher name and date at the top-left
    // keeping a margin
    $scene->addElement([
        "type" => "component",
        "component" => "basic/052",
        "settings" => [
            "card" => [
                "vertical-align" => "top",
                "horizontal-align" => "right",
                "padding" => $margin
            ],
            "section" => [
                "text" => $article["source"],
                "font-size" => "5vw"
            ],
            "headline" => [
                "text" => $article["date"],
                "font-size" => "5vw"
            ]
        ]
    ]);

    // Generate the voice over from the headline
    // using the male voice en-US-GuyNeural
    $scene->addElement([
        "type" => "voice",
        "voice" => "en-US-GuyNeural",
        "text" => $article["headline"],
        "start" => 0.5,
        "extra-time" => 0.5
    ]);

    // Add the scene into the movie
    $movie->addScene($scene);
}

// Add a closing scene
$closing = new Scene;
$closing->addElement([
    "type" => "text",
    "style" => "005",
    "text" => "Powered by JSON2Video.com",
    "settings" => [
        "font-size" => "4vw"
    ]
]);
$closing->duration = 5;

$movie->addScene($closing);


// Add a background music to the movie
$movie->addElement([
    "type" => "audio",
    "src" => "https://assets.json2video.com/assets/audios/news-opening-01.mp3",
    "volume" => 0.2,
    "duration" => -2,
    "fade-out" => 2
]);

// Call JSON2Video API and start rendering the movie
$render = $movie->render();

// Wait for the render to finish
$movie->waitToFinish();