Turn YouTube Videos into Summaries, Transcripts, and Visual Insights

n8n template #3188

Summary

Who is this for? This workflow is built for anyone who works with YouTube content, whether you're: A learner looking to understand a video’s key points A content creator repurposing video material A YouTube manager looking to update titles, descriptions A social media strategist searching for the most shareable clips Don't just ask questions about what's said. Find out what's going on in a video too. Video Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvgKfKxnC8 What problem does this solve? YouTube videos hold valuable insights, but watching and processing them manually takes time. This workflow automates: Quick content extraction: Summarize key ideas without watching full videos Visual analysi

How to set it up

Open template #3188 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
No app accounts to connect: every node is built into n8n.
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 "Turn YouTube Videos into Summaries, Transcripts, and Visual Insights" (https://n8n.io/workflows/3188). It uses: HTTP Request, Code. 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 Code

Questions

Yes. Colleen Brady published it free on n8n.io, and it has 20K views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

None. All 2 nodes are built into n8n.

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