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Who is it for?
This workflow is perfect for content creators, marketers, researchers, or anyone who wants to efficiently keep up with a YouTube channel without watching every video. It saves you hours of manual work by automatically transcribing, translating, and summarizing new video content.
What it does
This workflow automates the entire process of digesting YouTube video content. It watches a specified YouTube channel for new uploads. When a new video is published, it uses Google's Gemini AI to create a full English transcription. The text is then translated into Japanese using DeepL and summarized by OpenAI's GPT into a clean title and a few key bullet points. Finally, it saves both the concise summary and the full translated text as separate documents in your Google Drive.
How to set up
Connect Your Accounts: Authenticate your credentials for the YouTube, Google Gemini, DeepL, OpenAI, and Google Drive nodes.
Set the YouTube Channel: In the YouTube: Get Channel by ID node, replace the placeholder channel ID with the one you want to monitor.
Choose Google Drive Folders: In the two Google Drive nodes (Save Summary and Save Full Translation), specify the Folder ID where you'd like to store the output files.
Activate: Enable the workflow to start monitoring for new videos.
Requirements
An n8n instance
A Google account with access to the YouTube API
A Google AI (Gemini) API key
A DeepL API account
An OpenAI API key
A Google account with access to Google Drive
How to customize the workflow
Change the Trigger: Adjust the Run once a day schedule trigger to run more or less frequently.
Adjust the Language: Modify the DeepL: Translate to Japanese node to translate to a different language, or remove it entirely to summarize the original English text.
Swap AI Models: Select different AI models in the Google Gemini Model or OpenAI Chat Model nodes based on your preference for speed or quality.
Modify the Summary Prompt: Edit the prompt in the Agent: Summarize Japanese Text node to change the tone, length, or format of the summary.
Change the Destination: Replace the Google Drive nodes with other services like Slack, Notion, or a database to send your summaries wherever you need them.