Digest new YouTube videos to Slack with Google Sheets, RapidAPI & GPT-4o-mini
Who is this for? Marketing, content, and enablement teams that need a quick, human-readable summary of every new video published by the YouTube channels they care about—without leaving Slack. What problem does this workflow solve? Manually checking multiple channels, skimming long videos, and pasting the highlights into Slack wastes time. This template automates the whole loop: detect a fresh upload from your selected channels → pull subtitles → distill the key take-aways with GPT-4o-mini → drop
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Digest new YouTube videos to Slack with Google Sheets, RapidAPI & GPT-4o-mini is a ready-made n8n workflow you import as a workflow JSON file — no build required. It connects Slack, Google Sheets, OpenAI. It's free to download. Follow the 5-step import below to go live in minutes.
- Platform
- n8n
- Connects
- Slack, Google Sheets, OpenAI
- Modules
- 31
- Price
- Free
- Version
- v1.0

About this workflow
Who is this for? Marketing, content, and enablement teams that need a quick, human-readable summary of every new video published by the YouTube channels they care about—without leaving Slack. What problem does this workflow solve? Manually checking multiple channels, skimming long videos, and pasting the highlights into Slack wastes time. This template automates the whole loop: detect a fresh upload from your selected channels → pull subtitles → distill the key take-aways with GPT-4o-mini → drop a neatly-formatted digest in Slack. What this workflow does 1. Schedule Trigger fires every 10 min, then grabs a list of YouTube RSS feeds from a Google Sheet. 2. HTTP + XML fetch & parse each feed; only brand-new videos continue. 3. YouTube API fetches title/description, RapidAPI grabs English subtitles. 4. Code nodes build an AI payload; OpenAI returns a JSON summary + article. 5. A formatter turns that JSON into Slack Block Kit, and Slack posts it. 6. Processed links are appended back to the “Video Links” sheet to prevent dupes. Setup 1. Make a copy of this Google Sheet and connect a Google Sheets OAuth2 credential with edit rights. 2. Slack App: create → add chat:write, channels:read, appmention; enable Event Subscriptions; install and store the Bot OAuth token in an n8n Slack credential. 3. RapidAPI key for (300 free calls/mo) → save as HTTP Header Auth. 4. OpenAI key → save in an OpenAI credential. 5. Add your RSS feed URLs to the “RSS Feed URLs” tab; press Execute Workflow. How to customise Adjust the schedule interval or freshness window in “If newly published”. Swap the OpenAI model or prompt for shorter/longer digests. Point the Slack node at a different channel or DM. Extend the AI payload to include thumbnails or engagement stats. Use-case ideas Product marketing: Instantly brief sales & CS teams when a competitor uploads a feature demo. Internal learning hub: Auto-summarise conference talks and share bullet-point notes with engineers. Social media managers: Get ready-to-post captions and key moments for re-purposing across platforms.
How to import this n8n workflow
- 1
Download the workflow JSON file after purchase.
- 2
Open n8n → click the menu → Import from File.
- 3
Select the downloaded JSON and import.
- 4
Set up credentials for each node that requires them.
- 5
Click Execute Workflow to test, then activate.
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