Find Eyewitness YouTube Clips: n8n + Google Sheets + Telegram

Find credible eyewitness YouTube clips faster—automatically filter and notify your team

Find Eyewitness YouTube Clips: n8n + Google Sheets + Telegram watches YouTube for breaking events and delivers only the most promising eyewitness candidates to your editors—earliest upload first. No more manually trawling: the workflow monitors, logs, scores, and sends Telegram digests so you can verify faster.

What this workflow does

• Opens an event window from an editor form: an editor submits queries (one or more YouTube search terms) and a monitoring duration.
• Registers the event in Google Sheets: the workflow appends the event to the “Events” tab and posts an “event opened” message to Telegram.
• Runs every 15 minutes: it reads “Events” and “Footage Log”, plans YouTube searches for active events, and respects credit/paging limits.
• Searches recent YouTube results: it queries YouTube via the RecentReborn search API (optionally paging), stops early when daily quota is low, and only collects videos not already logged.
• Scores and categorizes videos: using keyword rules and optionally an OpenAI chat model, it labels results as eyewitness, news reupload, commentary, or unrelated, and flags likely copies.
• Logs and closes events: new clips go to “Footage Log”; counters update, and expired/deactivated events are closed.
• Sends Telegram updates: you receive a digest with new eyewitness candidates and any run problems, plus a wrap-up summary when an event window ends.

Use cases

• Newsrooms monitoring fast-moving incidents and needing verified first-hand footage.
• Automation engineers building an n8n workflow marketplace-grade monitoring pipeline with Google Sheets and Telegram notifications.
• SaaS operators managing multi-event monitoring with clear logging, deduplication, and quota-aware YouTube querying.

Technical details

• Integrations: Google Sheets (tabs: Events, Footage Log) and Telegram.
• API: RecentReborn search API for YouTube discovery.
• Optional AI: OpenAI chat model for labeling titles and flagging probable copies.
• Core n8n nodes/workflow blocks: if, set, code, form, wait, split out.

Get started: create the required Google Sheet structure with matching column headers, then connect credentials and point the workflow to your Events and Footage Log tabs.