Multi-User Telegram Bot to Summarize & Repurpose YouTube Videos with GPT-4o

n8n template #5468

Summary

👤 Who’s it for This workflow is for content creators, marketers, educators, or anyone who wants to instantly summarize YouTube videos and repurpose them into different formats (LinkedIn post, tweet, etc.) via a simple Telegram chatbot. ⚙️ How it works This n8n automation listens for messages in Telegram. If the message contains a YouTube link, it: Extracts the video ID Fetches the video transcript using RapidAPI Cleans the transcript of any special characters Sends it to OpenAI to generate a summary If the message is not a link, it simply acts as an AI chatbot using OpenAI with memory support. ✅ Supports follow-up prompts like: “Make it shorter” “Turn this into a LinkedIn post” “Create a tw

How to set it up

Open template #5468 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
Create 2 credentials under Credentials → Add credential: Telegram, OpenAI Chat Model. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
Check the model in the AI Agent node. The template may point at a model your account can't use; swap it for one you have access to.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "Multi-User Telegram Bot to Summarize & Repurpose YouTube Videos with GPT-4o" (https://n8n.io/workflows/5468). It uses: HTTP Request, Telegram, Code, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model, Simple Memory. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

Apps and nodes

HTTP Request Telegram Code AI Agent OpenAI Chat Model Simple Memory

Questions

Yes. Aashiq published it free on n8n.io, and it has 112 views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

Telegram, OpenAI Chat Model. The other 4 nodes are built into n8n.

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