▌ 2026-05-28-daily-video-cron.md

# Daily Comparative Video — Cron Run **Date:** 2026-05-28 **Script:** `~/.hermes/scripts/daily_comparative_video.py` **Result:** ✅ SUCCESS (after previous timeout failure) ## Topic - **Topic 5/11:** Birth Rate — `birth_rate` - **Title:** 20 Countries with HIGHEST Birth Rates - **Indicator:** `SP.DYN.TFRT.IN` (Fertility rate, births per woman) - **Direction:** high ## Data Fetch - Countries fetched: 154 - Total records: 5166 - Some batch errors (batch 60: timeout, batch 80: 403), recovered via individual fallback fetches ## Top 20 Countries Selected Somalia, Niger, Congo Dem. Rep., Central African Republic, Mali, Angola, Burundi, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Mauritania, Yemen Rep., Benin, Nigeria, Sudan, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Togo, Burkina Faso, Congo Rep. ## Video Output - **Output:** `/Users/Shared/hf-demo/gdp-animation/video_daily.mp4` - **Duration:** ~102s compilation, ~4.6MB - **Frames:** 3060 total (30fps) ## YouTube Metadata - **Title:** 20 Countries with HIGHEST Birth Rates 😱 - **Hashtags:** #BirthRate #PopulationGrowth #Demographics #WorldData #Africa #comparativedata #DataVisualization #Economics #Geography ## Previous Failure - Script previously timed out after 120s — today's run succeeded, processing all 3060 frames in ~102s.