In this live build, watch as I use self-hosted n8n, OpenAI's Whisper and GPT-4o with FFmpeg to automate finding clips from my YouTube video to turn into shorts. This workflow automation tutorial is part of series, showing the entire process step by step figuring it out as I go from scratch. Part 1 is finding the clips from the video, Part 2 will reformat the clips to fit mobile, and Part 3 will put it all together in a Short.

This is a quick tutorial for automatically scheduling YouTube uploads using Google Sheets, Google Drive, and n8n. Once you've created a Google client that connects your YouTube and Google Drive accounts, you can easily setup a scheduling system in Google Sheets to upload Videos to YouTube on whatever schedule you want. This could also be expanded to upload to TikTok, Instagram or LinkedIn as well!

Upload videos to YouTube using HTTP Requests and YouTube API in n8n rather than the standard YouTube node to allow for more stable and larger file uploads with self-hosted n8n. YouTube Upload API Definition: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/update YouTube Upload API Guide: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/uploading_a_video Command for alternate file size with self-hosted n8n: export N8N_DEFAULT_BINARY_DATA_MODE=filesystem npx n8n start

This is Part 3 in Automating YouTube video to Shorts using self-hosted n8n, Whisper, FFmpeg, and ChatGPT-4o. Finish up the series I'll walk through combining all the clips from Part 2 into one full short, and wrap up that short with some automatic subtitles.

This is a deeper dive into the basics of n8n in case you're just catching up. Now is the perfect time to build your first workflow and connect it to Google's new Gemini 3.0 AI model. Let me know if you have any questions!