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Generate YouTube Video Summaries with SearchAPI Transcripts and LLM

by Pedro Santosadapted from n8n official workflow galleryUpdated Aug 2026
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🎥 Summarize YouTube Videos using SearchApi & LLM Who is this for? This workflow is ideal for content creators, students, digital marketers, educators, and researchers who want to quickly summarize YouTube videos. What problem does this workflow solve? Manually extracting important information from lengthy YouTube videos can be tedious and prone to errors. This workflow streamlines the process by automatically fetching video transcripts using SearchApi.io and producing concise, informative summaries through a summarization chain powered by any LLM provider. This allows users to quickly access crucial information without the need for manual transcription or detailed viewing. What this workflow does Fetches the complete transcript of a YouTube video using SearchApi. Combines the retrieved transcript into a single, continuous text. Utilizes a Summarization Chain with an LLM (e.g., OpenRouter models) to create a concise summary of the video content. Setup Install the SearchApi community node: Open Settings → Community Nodes inside your self‑hosted n8n instance. Fill npm Package Name with @searchapi/n8n-nodes-searchapi. Accept the risk prompt, and hit Install.

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n8nreference-onlychain-summarizationlm-chat-open-aitext-splitter-recursive-character-text-splitter
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CategoryAI Automation
Triggermanual
Complexitymedium
Nodes7
AddedMay 2, 2025

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