Create and publish AI YouTube videos from Google Sheets with GPT-4o and JSON2Video

by Khadija Naeem ✓ · 31 views · created 2026-09-04 · Content Creation, Multimodal AI

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 21 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day) (plus 2 other triggers). Along the way it connects Google Sheets, OpenAI Chat Model and YouTube.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day) (plus 2 other triggers).

1. Read from Sheets (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
2. Read Approved Video (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
3. Chain LLM Prompts (Basic LLM Chain): sends a prompt to an LLM, with model: OpenAI GPT-4 Chat; output parser: Parse Structured Output
4. Ready to Publish? (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
5. Fetch Music from Sheets (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
6. Fetch Approved Video (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
7. Post to Json2Video API (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
8. Publish to YouTube (YouTube): uses YouTube
9. Wait: pauses before continuing
10. Update YouTube Compliance (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API

…plus 6 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

Google SheetsOpenAI Chat ModelYouTube

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Nodes used (11)

• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Google Sheetsn8n-nodes-base.googleSheets
• Basic LLM Chain@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm
• OpenAI Chat Model@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi
• Structured Output Parser@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.outputParserStructured
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Waitn8n-nodes-base.wait
• Switchn8n-nodes-base.switch
• YouTuben8n-nodes-base.youTube
• Manual Triggern8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger
• Ifn8n-nodes-base.if

From the author

Quick overview This workflow pulls “to create” YouTube ideas from Google Sheets, uses OpenAI to generate a 14-scene script with voice and image prompts, renders a video via JSON2Video with selected music assets, saves the output URL back to Sheets, and only…

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