🎬 YouTube video transcription & summary to Telegram with gpt-5.6-terra
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💡 Pro Tip — YouTube’s API quotas can be a bottleneck when you’re pulling data at scale. ScraperNode is a community node with dedicated scrapers for channels, videos, and comments — no quota limits, just structured data.
Description
Disclaimer: This workflow uses a community node and needs self-hosted n8n:
npm install n8n-nodes-supadata- Please install this before running the workflow.
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Skip the video, keep the insight. Send any YouTube link to your Telegram bot and get back a structured summary in seconds: theme, audience, key insights, problems and solutions, plus notable quotes. No need to watch the whole thing.
Last updated: September 2026.
Who is this for?
Anyone who wants quick summaries of YouTube videos: researchers, students, analysts, or busy professionals catching up on the go.
What problem is this workflow solving?
Long videos hide their best points behind timestamps. This automation fetches the full transcript, summarizes it with AI, and sends a clean recap to Telegram. Stay informed without the overwhelm.
What this workflow does
- Telegram Trigger: Start by sending a YouTube link to your Telegram bot.
- Get Transcript (Supadata): Uses the Supadata API to retrieve the full video transcript.
- Summarize with OpenAI gpt-5.6-terra: Processes the transcript with a structured prompt to extract the main theme, target audience, key insights and tips, problems discussed with solutions, and notable quotes or highlights.
- Send to Telegram: The final summary is formatted and sent back to your Telegram chat, ready for reading or saving.
Requirements
- Self-hosted n8n instance
- Supadata API Key
- OpenAI API Key
- Telegram Bot Token (Bot API docs)
Output Example
The Telegram summary includes:
- Title and topic
- Key learnings
- Tips or insights
- Issues raised and solutions
- Quotes or highlights
Just send a link, and get the core message fast. Perfect for learning on the go.
Quick Answers
Does this run on n8n Cloud?
No. The Supadata community node needs a self-hosted n8n instance.
What do I send the bot?
Any YouTube video link. The transcript fetching and summarizing run automatically.
What comes back?
A structured summary: theme, audience, insights, problems with solutions, and quotes.
Made by: khmuhtadin
Tag: youtube, summarizer, telegram, openai
Category: AI Automation, Video Tools
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Additional info
Built with n8n. Need an assessment on your business? Feel free to reach out at https://khmuhtadin.com/consultation/
🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Telegram, Telegram Trigger, Basic LLM Chain, OpenAI Chat Model, Structured Output Parser
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File