Create YouTube Shorts from trending topics with OpenAI, Airtable and Creatomate

by Craig ✓ · 149 views · created 2026-07-29 · Content Creation, Multimodal AI

What this workflow does

This workflow has 42 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 3 other triggers). It uses only n8n's built-in nodes. It also calls googleapis.com, api.creatomate.com and api.openai.com over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 3 other triggers).

1. DISCOVERY — Runtime Config (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 9 fields: airtable_table_id, airtable_base_id, youtube_api_key…
2. APPROVAL — Community Setup (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 4 fields: airtable_base_id, airtable_table_id, renderer_webhook_url…
3. RENDER — Community Setup (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 6 fields: airtable_base_id, airtable_table_id, creatomate_template_id…
4. DISCOVERY — Fetch YouTube Most Popular (HTTP Request): calls googleapis.com
5. DISCOVERY — Fetch Google Trends RSS (RSS Read): reads an RSS feed
6. APPROVAL — Find Approved Airtable Records (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
7. RENDER — Validate Approved Payload (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
8. DISCOVERY — Normalise YouTube Signals (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
9. DISCOVERY — Normalise Google Trends Signals (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
10. APPROVAL — Expand Airtable Records (Code): runs custom JavaScript code

…plus 26 more steps. See the full node list below.

HTTP calls to: googleapis.com, api.creatomate.com, api.openai.com

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Nodes used (12)

• Manual Triggern8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger
• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Edit Fields (Set)n8n-nodes-base.set
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• RSS Readn8n-nodes-base.rssFeedRead
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• Mergen8n-nodes-base.merge
• No Operation, do nothingn8n-nodes-base.noOp
• Ifn8n-nodes-base.if
• Webhookn8n-nodes-base.webhook
• Waitn8n-nodes-base.wait
• Respond to Webhookn8n-nodes-base.respondToWebhook

From the author

Quick overview This workflow discovers trending topics from YouTube Most Popular and Google Trends, uses OpenAI to rank and draft Shorts-ready angles, stores items for review in Airtable, then sends approved records to Creatomate to render a video and writes…

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