--- title: How I Built a Blog-to-Podcast AI Agent | daily.dev description: A developer built a blog-to-podcast AI agent that takes a blog URL and returns an MP3 file. The pipeline uses Firecrawl to extract article content, Gemini 2.5... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-blog-to-podcast-ai-agent-6hfveoxdq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I Built a Blog-to-Podcast AI Agent | daily.dev og:description: A developer built a blog-to-podcast AI agent that takes a blog URL and returns an MP3 file. The pipeline uses Firecrawl to extract article content, Gemini 2.5... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-blog-to-podcast-ai-agent-6hfveoxdq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6HfveoxDq.png og:image:alt: How I Built a Blog-to-Podcast AI Agent og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I Built a Blog-to-Podcast AI Agent **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · [@aniketsdev](https://daily.dev/aniketsdev) · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer built a blog-to-podcast AI agent that takes a blog URL and returns an MP3 file. The pipeline uses Firecrawl to extract article content, Gemini 2.5 Flash to rewrite it as a conversational podcast script, and ElevenLabs for speech synthesis. Agno orchestrates the entire workflow. The post explains the architectural decisions, including why an agent-based approach was chosen over simple sequential API calls, and the importance of writing for ears rather than eyes when generating the script. Current limitations include single-speaker output and blog-only support, with future ideas like PDF ingestion, multilingual narration, and multi-host conversations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can I build a pipeline that converts a blog article into a podcast using AI tools? Combine four tools into one agentic workflow: Firecrawl extracts the blog content, Gemini 2.5 Flash rewrites it into a conversational podcast script, ElevenLabs converts that script into natural speech, and Agno orchestrates the whole process behind a single objective. A Streamlit interface lets users paste a URL and receive a playable or downloadable MP3. _daily.dev surfaces practical writeups like this for developers piecing together agentic AI pipelines._ ### Why use an agent framework instead of just calling scraping, summarization, and text-to-speech APIs in sequence? An agent framework like Agno lets the application focus on a single goal, such as 'turn this blog into a podcast', instead of manually coordinating each API call. The agent decides how to use available tools like Firecrawl and Gemini to extract content and generate a script, making it easier to add new capabilities without restructuring the whole pipeline. _developers weighing agent orchestration versus manual API chaining can find similar tradeoffs discussed on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How to Build and Deploy a Blog-to-Audio Service Using OpenAI](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-and-deploy-a-blog-to-audio-service-using-openai-nbhhr0rwh) · freeCodeCamp · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Assistant for Our Blog Writing Process](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-assistant-for-our-blog-writing-process-uduobqhmo) · RUBYLAND · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing Talk Python AI Integrations](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-talk-python-ai-integrations-4mtto50wd) · Planet Python · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#google-gemini](https://daily.dev/tags/google-gemini), [#text-to-speech](https://daily.dev/tags/text-to-speech), [#elevenlabs](https://daily.dev/tags/elevenlabs) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-blog-to-podcast-ai-agent-6hfveoxdq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How I Built a Blog-to-Podcast AI Agent","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-blog-to-podcast-ai-agent-6hfveoxdq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-blog-to-podcast-ai-agent-6hfveoxdq"},"datePublished":"2026-07-20T20:07:03.843Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:00:22.888Z","description":"A developer built a blog-to-podcast AI agent that takes a blog URL and returns an MP3 file. 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