📊 Bulk YouTube channel content analysis with Apify & DeepSeek AI to Google Sheets

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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

🎓📺 Watching top YouTubers is now a mainstream way to learn, but watching dozens—or even hundreds—of videos isn’t realistic. This workflow gives learners a fast way to grasp an entire creator’s catalog at a glance.

📄🔗 Demo Google Sheet: click me

🧠🔍 YouTube Channel Research & Summarization Workflow

👥 Who’s it for

• 📚 Learners and educators who want a fast overview of a creator’s entire catalog.
• 🧩 Research, SEO, and content ops teams building an intelligence layer on top of YouTube channels.

⚙️ How it works

• 📝 Collects parameters via a Form Trigger.
• 🕷️ Launches an Apify YouTube Scraper, polls for completion, and fetches the final dataset.
• 💾 Saves the raw JSON to Google Drive, reloads it, and processes records in batches.
• 🗣️ Auto-selects English subtitles when available, extracts core metadata, and feeds transcript + metadata to an AI Summarization Agent.
• 📧 Sends a Gmail completion notification when done.

🛠️ How to set up

1. 🔑 Connect credentials (once)

   • 🗂️ Google Drive
   • 📊 Google Sheets (OAuth enabled)
   • ✉️ Gmail
   • 🧠 DeepSeek API (or alternative LLM); Apify API (YouTube scraper actor)

2. 📝 Configure the form

   • 🔗 Youtuber_MainPage_URL (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/@n8n-io)
   • 🔢 Total_number_video (tip: use the channel’s current total to crawl all)
   • 🏷️ Storing_Name (used for the Drive filename & the Sheet tab)
   • 🔑 Apify_API (Apify provides $5 free credit per month, which can crawl ~1,000 YouTube videos → https://console.apify.com/)
   • 📧 Email

3. 📁 Point Sheets & Drive

   • 🔗 Create a Google Sheet and link it to all Google Sheets–related nodes.
   • 💽 Select a Drive folder to save raw CSV backups (optional).

🎛️ How to customize the workflow

• 🈯 Subtitle logic: Extend the language selector Select_Subtitle_Language to choose English, Mandarin, or another language.
• 🔔 Notifications: Customize the Gmail subject/body, or add Slack/Teams alerts on success/failure with basic run stats.

📬 Need help? Contact me <owenlzyxg@gmail.com>

🔗 Nodes Used

Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Google Drive, Gmail, AI Agent, Auto-fixing Output Parser

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup