AI-Powered YouTube Video Digests to Slack
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Effortlessly stay updated on your favorite YouTube channels by automatically fetching video transcripts, segmenting them by chapters, and generating AI-powered summaries directly to Slack. This workflow transforms long videos into digestible insights, saving you time and ensuring you never miss key content.
About This Workflow
This powerful n8n workflow revolutionizes how you consume YouTube content. Instead of spending hours watching videos, automatically convert entire video transcripts into concise, AI-generated summaries delivered straight to your Slack channels. The workflow intelligently extracts video subtitles, identifies chapters from descriptions, and even formats the transcript text for optimal processing by OpenAI. Whether you need a quick rundown of a new tutorial, a competitor's analysis, or the latest industry updates, this solution ensures your team is always informed with minimal effort, transforming raw video data into actionable intelligence.
Key Features
- Automated Transcript Retrieval: Automatically fetches full subtitle transcripts for YouTube videos.
- Intelligent Chapter Extraction: Parses video descriptions to identify and segment content into logical chapters.
- AI-Powered Summarization (via OpenAI): Prepares video content for advanced AI models to generate detailed, quick-rundown summaries.
- Rich Slack Integration: Formats AI-generated insights into visually appealing Slack Block Kit messages for easy consumption.
- Customizable Content Processing: Processes transcripts both with and without chapter divisions for flexible summarization strategies.
How To Use
- Configure YouTube Video Source: Connect your workflow to a YouTube RSS feed (or another trigger) to provide video URLs. Ensure the
Get Subtitlesnode receives the video URL ($json.url). - Integrate OpenAI: Set up your OpenAI credentials and ensure the referenced 'Generate Summary' node (not shown, but implied) is configured to use the chapter-formatted or full transcript data for summarization.
- Set Up Slack Integration: Provide your Slack Webhook URL or API token to the final Slack node (not shown, but implied) for sending the formatted messages.
- Review Code Nodes: The
Get Timestamps,Formatted Chapter Text,Formatted Transcript w/o Chapters, andGenerate Slack Blocks - Detailed Summarynodes contain custom JavaScript. Review and adjust the code if your video descriptions or desired Slack output require specific formatting changes. - Activate and Test: Run the workflow manually to test the end-to-end process, ensuring subtitles are fetched, summaries are generated, and Slack messages are sent correctly.
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Workflow JSON
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"id": "d9040169-9ec6-4a69-aedf-52537189952e",
"name": "AI-Powered YouTube Video Digests to Slack",
"nodes": 6,
"category": "Operations",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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