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Auto Video Merge & Social Upload Automation
An end-to-end workflow for generating, merging, and publishing short-form inspirational videos across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, X, and Facebook.
📌 Overview:
This workflow automates the entire video production and publishing pipeline. It takes random quotes, background videos, and background music from Google Sheets & Google Drive, merges them into a final video using an API, uploads the output to multiple social platforms, and updates the content tracking sheet automatically.
Perfect for creators who publish motivational or short-form content daily.
🚀 Key Features
- Trigger Options
Manual Trigger – Generate videos anytime.
Scheduled Trigger – Auto-generate videos every 5 minutes or at your preferred interval.
- Source Data Collection
The workflow retrieves content from Google Sheets & Google Drive:
Quotes – From Quotes_status sheet
Background Videos – From a Google Drive folder
Background Music – From a Google Drive folder
Each item is appended back into Sheets for status tracking.
Nodes used:
Retrieve Quote Data
List Video Background Files
List Music Background Files
Retrieve Video Background Data
Retrieve Music Background Data
- Random Content Selection
A Code node selects one random:
Quote
Video background
Music track
This ensures each final output video is unique.
Node:
Select Random Video, Music & Quote
- Video Generation & Merging
The workflow sends selected video + music URLs to an FFmpeg merge API:
Initiates the video merge
Continuously polls the status API until the job finishes
Downloads the merged MP4 file
Saves the final video locally (video1.mp4)
Nodes:
upload and gen video
check status
If
Wait
download video
Save Final Video
- Optional: Upload to TikTok / Instagram / X / Threads
Disabled by default but preconfigured for:
TikTok
X (Twitter)
Threads
These nodes use upload-post.com API for multi-platform posting.
Nodes (disabled):
Upload Video and Description to Tiktok
Upload Video to Instagram
Upload Video to X
Upload Video to Threads
Each platform’s upload result is written back into Google Sheets:
TiktokURL
InsURL
XURL
ThreadsURL
- Upload to YouTube (Enabled)
The merged video is published to YouTube via the YouTube OAuth2 node.
Generates title using filename
Uses the quote as a description
Uploads as a public YouTube Short
Node:
Upload to YouTube1
After uploading, the YouTube link is saved into the Google Sheet.
- Google Sheets Status Update
Once the workflow finishes uploading:
Updates the row associated with the selected quote
Mark status as DONE
Stores YouTube / TikTok / Instagram / X / FB URL
Nodes:
Tiktok Update Quote Upload Status
Update Instagram status
Update X status
Update FB status
- File Upload to Google Drive
The final MP4 is also stored back into a designated Google Drive folder.
Node:
Upload file
- Telegram Notifications
The workflow sends Telegram messages to notify:
Merge status
YouTube Upload ID
Nodes:
Send a text message
📁 Files Used
Workflow JSON: /mnt/data/Video merge and upload Youtube.json
🧩 Ideal Use Cases
Motivational video channels
TikTok/Reels/Shorts content farms
Automated inspirational quote pages
Multi-platform social media distribution
Zero-touch daily video generation
🌟 Summary
This n8n workflow is a complete video-automation system. It builds an original video using randomized components, merges it through an external API, publishes it across multiple social platforms, and updates your content tracking sheet—all without manual effort.