Generate short-form clips from YouTube videos with GPT-4o, Grok & Airtable

by Jordan ✓ · 6,233 views · created 2025-12-10 · Content Creation, Multimodal AI

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 35 nodes and runs on Google Drive events (file created) (plus 3 other triggers). Along the way it connects Airtable, Google Drive, OpenAI and OpenRouter Chat Model and 1 more. It also calls googleapis.com, api.kie.ai and api.apify.com over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On Google Drive events (file created) (plus 3 other triggers).

1. Create a record (Airtable): create
2. Get a record (Airtable): uses Airtable
3. Get a record (Airtable): uses Airtable
4. Get a record (Airtable): uses Airtable
5. Generate 3 titles (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
6. Thumbnail prompt optimizer (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
7. Get a video (YouTube): get (video)
8. Add titles to record (Airtable): update
9. clean up prompt (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: thumbnailPrompt
10. Check to see if transcript is ready (HTTP Request): calls googleapis.com

…plus 20 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

AirtableGoogle DriveOpenAIOpenRouter Chat ModelYouTube

HTTP calls to: googleapis.com, api.kie.ai, api.apify.com

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Nodes used (14)

• Airtablen8n-nodes-base.airtable
• Google Drive Triggern8n-nodes-base.googleDriveTrigger
• Webhookn8n-nodes-base.webhook
• OpenAI@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Extract from Filen8n-nodes-base.extractFromFile
• Waitn8n-nodes-base.wait
• Switchn8n-nodes-base.switch
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• Edit Fields (Set)n8n-nodes-base.set
• OpenRouter Chat Model@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenRouter
• Basic LLM Chain@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm
• Google Driven8n-nodes-base.googleDrive
• YouTuben8n-nodes-base.youTube

From the author

This n8n template demonstrates how to automate YouTube content repurposing using AI. Upload a video to Google Drive and automatically generate transcriptions, A/B testable titles, AI thumbnails, short-form clips with captions, and YouTube descriptions with…

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