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Turn YouTube transcripts into newsletter drafts using Dumpling AI + GPT-4o

Ready for 3.0

by Yang ✓ · 2,961 views · created 2025-07-08 · 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 7 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow”. Along the way it connects Google Sheets, OpenAI and Gmail. It also calls app.dumplingai.com over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow”.

  1. Read YouTube Links from Google Sheets (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
  2. Loop: Process Each YouTube Link (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
  3. Send Email Notification When Draft is Ready (Gmail): uses Gmail
  4. Dumpling AI: Get YouTube Transcript (HTTP Request): calls app.dumplingai.com (POST)
  5. GPT-4o: Write Newsletter Draft from Transcript (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
  6. Log Newsletter Draft to Google Sheets (Google Sheets): append or update

Services it uses

Google SheetsOpenAIGmail

HTTP calls to: app.dumplingai.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 (6)

From the author

🧾 What this workflow does This workflow turns YouTube video links into ready-to-edit newsletter drafts using Dumpling AI and GPT-4o. It reads new video URLs from a Google Sheet, extracts their transcripts, summarizes them into email-friendly content, and…

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