YouTube Workflows
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Unpublish expired YouTube videos using Google Sheets and Slack
Quick Overview This workflow runs daily and checks a Google Sheets embargo schedule for YouTube videos whose unpublish date has passed, then updates their privacy status on YouTube and logs the result back to the sheet while sending a recap (or “nothing due”) message to Slack. How it works Runs every day at 6am on a schedule trigger. Reads your embargo control spreadsheet from Google Sheets. Selects videos whose “Unpublish Date” is today or earlier (using a configured timezone), skips rows already marked Expired, and defaults the target privacy status to private when missing. For each due video, fetches the current video snippet and status from YouTube. If the video is not already at the target privacy status, updates the video on YouTube to private or unlisted while preserving its existing title and category. Updates the matching row in Google Sheets to Status = Expired and writes an “Unpublished At” timestamp, then posts a Slack recap of the processed videos. If no videos are due, posts a “nothing due” notice to the configured Slack channel. Setup Add a YouTube (Google) OAuth2 credential with permission to read and update videos, and select it in both YouTube steps. Add a Google
Audit YouTube video metadata changes with Google Sheets and Slack
Quick Overview This workflow runs daily to fetch all videos from a YouTube channel, compare key metadata fields against a prior snapshot stored in Google Sheets, log any differences, and optionally post a summary to Slack. How it works Runs every day at 08:00 on a schedule. Reads your YouTube channel’s uploads playlist and retrieves each video’s current title, description, tags, privacy status, and category. Loads the previous snapshot from Google Sheets and compares the tracked fields to detect added, removed/hidden, or changed metadata. When changes are found, appends each changed field (old value vs new value) to a Google Sheets change log. Clears and rewrites the snapshot in Google Sheets with the latest metadata so the next run compares against today’s baseline. Posts a summary to a Slack channel when changes are detected (or when alwaysNotify is enabled). Setup Add a YouTube (Google) OAuth2 credential and set your target channel ID in the audit options. Add a Google Sheets credential, set the spreadsheet ID, and ensure your spreadsheet has a Snapshot tab and a Change Log tab mapped in the Google Sheets steps. Add a Slack credential and set the target Slack channel ID for the
Normalize YouTube video tags using Google Sheets vocabulary rules
Quick Overview This workflow loads a tag vocabulary from Google Sheets, scans your YouTube channel’s recent videos, normalizes each video’s tags to match alias/banned/required rules, and updates only the videos whose tag set changes. How it works Runs manually to start the tag normalization process. Reads controlled-vocabulary rules from Google Sheets, including alias mappings, banned tags, and required baseline tags. Lists up to 50 videos from the specified YouTube channel and fetches each video’s snippet details, including tags, title, and category. Normalizes tags by lowercasing and cleaning them, converting aliases to canonical tags, removing banned tags, deduplicating, adding required tags, and truncating to YouTube’s tag character limit. Compares the normalized tag set to the current tags and keeps only videos where the tags changed. Updates the tags on the changed videos in YouTube while preserving the existing title and category. Setup Add a YouTube (Google) OAuth2 credential for the YouTube nodes and ensure it has permission to update videos on your channel. Add a Google Sheets credential, set the spreadsheet ID and sheet/tab to the vocabulary document, and ensure it is ac
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Create Daily YouTube Playlist, using Google Sheets, and get notified in Telegram
Are you a cord-cutter? Do you find yourself looking through the many titles of videos uploaded to Youtube, just to find the ones you want to watch? Even when you subscribe to the channels you like, do you find that you want to watch the news now and my tech/n8n videos later? Well, now you can have n8n grab the last 8 videos, posted in the last 24 hours, and put them in a playlist for the day; and, each day the old playlist is deleted. Are you tired of a channel filling your subscriptions with tons of videos a day; this workflow can be used for any channel, whether you are subscribed to the channel or not. It's a YouTube playlist automation. How it works: Create your list of prefered Youtube Channels in a Google Sheet and it will create you a daily playlist; and, it will delete the playlist created yesterday. Instructions To set this up, you need to create a Google Sheet with the following headings in line 1: Channel User Name Channel Name Channel Link Channel ID Copy the 'Create your Channel List' into it's own workflow and link the Sheets links to your new sheet. To get the 'Create your Channel List' to work, you need to visit each channel's page that you want included in your pla