🎥 YouTube Video Summarizer for Social Media

Turn any YouTube video into a short, structured summary using AI — perfect for content creators, marketers, or social media managers.

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🔧 What We Built

We created a no-code automation in n8n that:

• Accepts a YouTube Video ID via a form
• Fetches the video transcript using an external API
• Summarizes the transcript using AI (Google Gemini)
• Automatically saves the summary to Google Docs for team use

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🧩 Flow Overview

Step

Description

✅ Form Trigger

User submits a YouTube video ID using an n8n form

🔁 Set Node

Maps the YouTube video ID for use in the API request

🌐 HTTP Request (External API)

Calls the YouTube Transcriptor AI API via RapidAPI to fetch transcript

🧹 Formatter (Code Node)

Joins transcript lines into a readable text block

🧠 AI Agent + Google Gemini (via Langchain)

Summarizes the full transcript into bullet points and tone

🧽 Optimizer (Code Node)

Extracts just the summary from the AI response

📝 Google Docs Node

Appends the clean summary to a shared Google Doc

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🌍 Real-World Problem Solved

❌ The Challenge

• Creators and marketers waste hours watching full videos just to extract the key points.
• Manual summarization is inconsistent, repetitive, and delays content planning.

✅ Our Solution

• ⏱️ Reduces time spent watching videos
• 🧠 AI-powered summaries keep tone consistent and structured
• 📄 Auto-sync with Google Docs makes summaries instantly available for teams

🔥 Bonus: This uses the YouTube Transcriptor AI API, so no need to manually scrape captions or use browser extensions.

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🚀 Ideal Use Cases

• Repurpose YouTube content into Instagram Reels, LinkedIn posts, or blog content
• Build a video summary library for your editorial team
• Quickly extract talking points from podcast episodes

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• n8n – workflow automation engine
• YouTube Transcriptor AI API – via RapidAPI
• Google Gemini (via Langchain) – AI summarization
• Google Docs – stores the final summary
• JavaScript nodes – custom text parsing & formatting

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