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Turn YouTube videos into weekly short clips with captions using WayinVideo and GPT-4o-mini

Ready for 3.0

by isaWOW ✓ · 551 views · created 2026-05-02 · 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 21 nodes and runs on a schedule (cron 0 9 * * 1). Along the way it connects Google Sheets, OpenAI Chat Model and Google Drive. It also calls wayinvideo-api.wayin.ai over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (cron 0 9 * * 1).

  1. 2. Google Sheets — Read Pending Videos (Google Sheets): get many
  2. 3. WayinVideo — Submit Summarization (HTTP Request): calls wayinvideo-api.wayin.ai (POST)
  3. 4. Wait — 90 Seconds Summary (Wait): waits 90 seconds
  4. 5. WayinVideo — Get Summary Results (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  5. 6. IF — Summary Complete? (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
  6. 8. Code — Store Summary Data (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  7. 7. Wait — 30 Seconds Summary Retry (Wait): waits 30 seconds
  8. 9. WayinVideo — Submit AI Clipping (HTTP Request): calls wayinvideo-api.wayin.ai (POST)
  9. 10. Wait — 90 Seconds Clips (Wait): waits 90 seconds
  10. 11. WayinVideo — Get Clip Results (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API

…plus 9 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

Google SheetsOpenAI Chat ModelGoogle Drive

HTTP calls to: wayinvideo-api.wayin.ai

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 (9)

From the author

Description Add your old YouTube video URLs to a Google Sheet once and every Monday at 9AM the workflow automatically processes each one end to end. WayinVideo runs two sequential APIs — first Summarization to extract structured highlights and tags, then AI…

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