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Extract YouTube video clips with Claude and Apify from natural language prompts

Ready for 3.0

by Matty Reed ✓ · 62 views · created 2026-02-02 · Content Creation, Multimodal AI

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 11 nodes and runs when someone submits an n8n form. Along the way it connects Google Sheets and Anthropic Chat Model.

How it runs

Trigger: When someone submits an n8n form.

  1. Workflow Configuration (Edit Fields (Set)): sets or maps fields
  2. Get Video Transcript from Apify (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  3. Find Clips from Transcript (AI Agent): runs an AI agent, with model: Anthropic Chat Model; output parser: Structured Output Parser
  4. Prepare Clip Requests (Edit Fields (Set)): sets or maps fields
  5. Create Clips via Apify (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  6. Save Clip Links to Google Sheets (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
  7. Download Clip Files (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  8. Save Files Locally (Code): runs custom JavaScript code

Services it uses

Google SheetsAnthropic Chat Model

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (8)

From the author

Who is this for? Content creators, marketers, and video editors who want to automatically extract highlight clips from YouTube videos using natural language descriptions—no manual timestamp hunting required. --- What problem does it solve? Manually scrubbing…

Excerpt from Matty Reed's description on n8n.io.

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