Automate YouTube Video Uploads from Google Drive & Sheets
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Effortlessly publish your video content with this automated YouTube upload workflow. It streamlines the process from a Google Sheet manifest, retrieves videos from Google Drive, handles the upload, and updates your records, freeing up valuable time for content creators.
About This Workflow
This powerful workflow automates the entire YouTube video upload process, ensuring your content goes live without manual intervention. Triggered on a flexible schedule, it first reads video metadata and file IDs from a designated Google Sheet. It then securely fetches the video files from Google Drive and seamlessly uploads them to your YouTube channel. Post-upload, the workflow updates the Google Sheet with the new status and organizes your Google Drive files by moving the processed videos to a specified archive folder. This end-to-end automation is perfect for content creators, marketers, and businesses looking to scale their video distribution efforts efficiently.
Key Features
- Scheduled Publishing: Automatically checks for new videos and uploads them at predefined times (e.g., Mon-Fri, 9 am, 12 pm, 3 pm).
- Centralized Metadata Management: Manage all video titles, descriptions, and Google Drive file IDs directly from a Google Sheet.
- Google Drive Integration: Seamlessly retrieve and archive video files from your Google Drive storage.
- Automated YouTube Uploads: Directly publish videos to your YouTube channel, including handling the video file and associated metadata.
- Post-Upload Status & Organization: Updates the Google Sheet with upload status and moves video files in Google Drive for better organization.
How To Use
- M-F 9am,12pm,3pm (Schedule Trigger): Configure the desired schedule for when the workflow should check for and upload new videos.
- Google Sheets (Read): Set up this node to read rows from your Google Sheet, which should contain columns for video metadata (e.g.,
Title,Description,Google Drive File ID,Status). - Get Video File Id (Google Drive): Ensure this node is configured to retrieve the specific Google Drive video file ID using data passed from the Google Sheets node.
- Download Video Data (Google Drive): Configure this node to download the actual video content from Google Drive, using the file ID obtained in the previous step.
- Upload to YouTube: Connect your YouTube account. Map the video
TitleandDescriptionfrom your Google Sheet, and theVideo Filefrom theDownload Video Datanode to the respective YouTube upload parameters. - Update Status (Google Sheets): Configure this node to update the
Statuscolumn in your Google Sheet (e.g., to "Uploaded" or "Published") for the corresponding row after a successful YouTube upload. - Get Folder Name & Move Video File to Folder (Google Drive): Specify the target folder in Google Drive where you want the uploaded video files to be moved (e.g., an "Archive" or "Published" folder) for organizational purposes.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "3f6d1f3f-5147-4a98-a8c1-f39f48cbab6d",
"name": "Automate YouTube Video Uploads from Google Drive & Sheets",
"nodes": 9,
"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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