📱 Auto-upload Instagram videos to YouTube with GPT-4o and Google Sheets tracking
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Description
📊 Description
Automate your cross-platform publishing workflow by automatically uploading Instagram videos to YouTube with AI-optimized titles and tags. 🚀🎬 This workflow runs every six hours, fetches newly posted Instagram videos, checks Google Sheets to avoid duplicate uploads, generates SEO-ready YouTube metadata using GPT-4o, downloads the video in high quality, uploads it to YouTube, and logs the full upload details for tracking. Perfect for creators, agencies, and businesses managing multi-platform content distribution at scale. 📈✨
🔁 What This Template Does
1️⃣ Runs every 6 hours to fetch recent Instagram media via Graph API. ⏰ 2️⃣ Splits the media list and filters for today’s video posts only. 🎥 3️⃣ Checks Google Sheets to see if the video was already uploaded. 🔎 4️⃣ Sends Instagram caption to AI to generate: — a YouTube-optimized title (max 60 chars) — SEO-friendly tags extracted from text + hashtags 5️⃣ Downloads the Instagram video binary file. ⬇️ 6️⃣ Waits 3 seconds to avoid YouTube rate limits. ⏳ 7️⃣ Uploads the video to YouTube with: — title — tags — caption as description 8️⃣ Logs the upload details into Google Sheets (ID, title, link, date, status). 📊 9️⃣ Prevents future duplicate uploads using a spreadsheet lookup. ✔️
⭐ Key Benefits
✅ Fully automates Instagram → YouTube video publishing ✅ AI-generated metadata increases YouTube visibility & search ranking ✅ Duplicate upload prevention ensures clean channel management ✅ Tracks upload history in a Google Sheet for transparency ✅ Requires zero manual downloading, editing, or re-uploading ✅ Ideal for creators, brands, community managers & agencies
🧩 Features
- Instagram Business API media fetch
- Filter for today’s videos using timestamps
- Google Sheets duplicate checker
- GPT-4o caption analysis for metadata generation
- Structured JSON output for reliable AI parsing
- YouTube video upload with custom metadata
- Spreadsheet logging with append/update
- Automatic scheduling with cron trigger
- Full workflow batching & safe retry logic
🔐 Requirements
- Facebook Graph API credentials (Instagram Business Account)
- YouTube OAuth2 credentials
- OpenAI API key (GPT-4o)
- Google Sheets OAuth2 credentials
- A Google Spreadsheet for tracking uploaded videos
- Instagram Business Account ID + Access Token
🎯 Target Audience
- Social media creators & influencers
- Digital marketing agencies
- YouTube automation teams
- Brands repurposing Instagram content for YouTube
- Content managers handling multiple accounts
- Community managers needing hands-free cross-posting
🔗 Nodes Used
Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Facebook Graph API, YouTube, Schedule Trigger, AI Agent
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File