AI-Powered YouTube Video Summarizer
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This workflow automates the summarization of YouTube videos using AI, transforming lengthy content into concise, actionable insights. It efficiently extracts video transcripts and leverages an AI model to generate summaries, saving valuable time for professionals, researchers, and content creators.
About This Workflow
Overwhelmed by long YouTube videos? This powerful n8n workflow is designed to cut through the noise, providing you with instant, AI-generated summaries of any YouTube video. Ideal for anyone looking to quickly grasp key information, conduct efficient research, or repurpose video content, this automation eliminates the need to watch entire videos. It seamlessly integrates a user-friendly input form, an external service for transcript extraction, and a robust AI engine (OpenAI via Langchain) to deliver precise and actionable summaries directly to you. Boost your productivity and information retention effortlessly.
Key Features
- Effortless Input: Simply paste a YouTube video URL into a dedicated web form to initiate the summarization process.
- Automated Transcript Extraction: Utilizes an external API (like Apify) to automatically fetch the complete transcript of the target YouTube video.
- Advanced AI Summarization: Leverages the power of large language models (OpenAI via Langchain) to intelligently condense lengthy transcripts into concise summaries.
- Time-Saving Productivity: Transform hours of video content into minutes of reading, enhancing research, learning, and content repurposing workflows.
- Flexible & Extensible: The output summary can be easily integrated with other n8n nodes for further actions, such as saving to a database, sending emails, or posting to Slack.
How To Use
- Input YouTube URL: The workflow begins with the "YouTube video URL" (Form Trigger) node. You'll submit the full YouTube video URL here when you execute the workflow.
- Configure Transcript Request: In the "Request YouTube Transcript" (HTTP Request) node, replace the placeholder
Apify API_KEY Here ???with your actual Apify POST endpoint URL, which includes your API Key. Ensure your Apify Actor is correctly set up for YouTube transcript retrieval. - Set Up AI Engine: Configure the "Summarization Engine" (Chat OpenAI) node by providing your OpenAI API credentials. This connects the workflow to the powerful language model for summarization.
- Review Summarization Node: The "Summarization of a YouTube script" (Langchain Chain Summarization) node automatically processes the retrieved transcript using the connected AI engine. No further configuration is typically needed here.
- Run and Extend: Execute the workflow by submitting a YouTube URL via the form. The generated summary will be the output of the "Summarization of a YouTube script" node. You can then connect additional nodes after the "No Operation, do nothing" node to store, share, or further process your summaries (e.g., send to email, Slack, Google Docs, etc.).
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Workflow JSON
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"id": "14e6bd2b-982a-405c-bea3-be5dcf85c939",
"name": "AI-Powered YouTube Video Summarizer",
"nodes": 22,
"category": "Personal",
"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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