Unlock YouTube's Top Performing Videos with Smart Analytics
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Automate the discovery and analysis of top-performing YouTube videos based on your search criteria. Gain deep insights into engagement metrics and video performance to inform your content strategy.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow empowers marketers and content creators to efficiently identify and analyze trending YouTube videos. By leveraging the YouTube Data API, it allows you to search for videos based on keywords, duration, and publication date, then extracts crucial data points like view counts, likes, and comments. The workflow further processes this information to calculate a performance score and provide a qualitative assessment, helping you understand what resonates with your audience and optimize your own video strategy. Discover what makes videos go viral and replicate that success for your brand.
Key Features
- Dynamic Video Search: Discover trending videos based on custom search terms, video duration, and publication windows.
- Comprehensive Data Extraction: Pulls detailed information including titles, channel details, engagement metrics (views, likes, comments), and video URLs.
- Performance Scoring: Calculates a proprietary performance score based on engagement rate, offering a clear indicator of video success.
- Qualitative Performance Tiers: Assigns intuitive performance labels from '💀 Dead' to '🚀 HOLY HELL' for easy interpretation.
- Automated Thumbnail Retrieval: Extracts high-resolution thumbnail URLs for visual asset utilization.
How To Use
- Set your API Key: In the 'Get Video IDs' node, replace
={{ $json.api_key }}with your actual YouTube Data API key. Ensure you have enabled the API in your Google Cloud project. - Define Search Parameters: In the 'Get Video IDs' node, specify your
search_term(e.g., 'best open source workflow tool') andformat(e.g., 'short', 'medium', 'long'). You can also adjustvideoLimitto control the number of videos fetched. - Execute the Workflow: Run the workflow. It will first search for videos, then extract their IDs, fetch detailed video data, and finally calculate and assign a performance score and text label to each video.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "770eb7f5-1a50-45dd-9ef8-c63a592a7289",
"name": "Unlock YouTube's Top Performing Videos with Smart Analytics",
"nodes": 21,
"category": "Marketing",
"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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