With just a few nodes in n8n you can have a simple image editor using Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, codenamed "Nano Banana". I'm using an HTTP Request node to call the Gemini API directly, basically following the same process from https://aistudio.google.com/apikey, and with a n8n and a little base64 encoding and decoding, you've got a prompt-based image editor. Here is the JSON body example of the Gemini request for reference: `{ "contents": [ { "parts": [ { "text": "{{ $('On form submission').item.json.Prompt }}" }, { "inlineData": { "mimeType": "image/png", "data": "{{ $json.data }}" } } ] } ], "generationConfig": { "responseModalities": ["IMAGE"] } }` This was one of those immediately powerful workflows. I actually ended up using it create the thumbnail to remove the Salesforce branding from my sweatshirt after the fact. Really powerful model and really easy setup. May have to do a few more workflows using Nano Banana. Let me know if you try it out or have any other ideas you want to see! 🍌

I'll have a video for this later, but I've updated the video starter kit with a few more options: - Transcribe video with timestamps - Options for segment or word timestamps - A generic ffmpeg command for editing video Updated code is below, but let me know if you have any questions https://github.com/jaypetersdotdev/self-hosted-video-starter-kit

One of my goals for this community will be to create workflows that don't always rely on Apify. I'm sure I'll end up using it still, there's a reason it's so popular. Hard to beat being able to pick something from their market place, pay a little money, and get huge amounts of data plugged directly into your workflow. Usually makes more sense to get something working than spend a bunch of time building it yourself to find out it wasn't really worth the effort. Done is better than perfect. But as an engineer, I can't help but resist the idea of paying for someone else's code, when I could do it myself, especially when some scenarios are surprisingly simple to do. Admittedly I wouldn't even know where to start for some of the scrapers I've seen on there, but there are a few tricks that I do know. One of them is https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp It's a free Python library that can download any YouTube video or extract any transcript with a single command. I'm not sure YouTube will be cool with me talking about it, so this will be a Skool exclusive topic, but a workflow highlighting yt-dlp will be high on the list. Until then, what do you think of Apify? Have you used it? Any actors you'd like to run for free instead? Let me know what you think!