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Schedule motivational YouTube Shorts with Google Drive, Gemini, Airtable and Cloudinary

Ready for 3.0

by Iliyan Ivanov ✓ · 117 views · created 2026-07-22 · Social Media, 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 22 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects Google Drive, Google Gemini, Airtable and Google Cloud Storage and 2 more. It also calls api.cloudinary.com over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 1 other trigger).

  1. random minutes (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  2. Wait: pauses before continuing
  3. Search files and folders (Google Drive): work with file folder
  4. check size (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
  5. sourceURL (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: sourceURL
  6. download file (Google Drive): download
  7. HTTP Request: calls api.cloudinary.com (POST)
  8. store in GCS (Google Cloud Storage): create (object)
  9. Build Cloudinary URL (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  10. come up with title (Google Gemini): analyze (video)

…plus 10 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

Google DriveGoogle GeminiAirtableGoogle Cloud StorageYouTubeTelegram

HTTP calls to: api.cloudinary.com

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 (13)

From the author

Quick overview This workflow schedules a random daily upload of a Google Drive video as a YouTube Short, compressing large files via Cloudinary, generating a title and hashtags with Google Gemini, logging details to Airtable, and sending a Telegram…

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