n8n YouTube RSS Digest to Telegram w/ Gemini Summaries

Turn new YouTube uploads into a daily Telegram digest—automatically summarized by Gemini

This n8n YouTube RSS Digest to Telegram w/ Gemini Summaries workflow checks your selected YouTube channels every morning, detects newly published videos, generates concise Google Gemini summaries from each video’s title and description, and sends a combined HTML digest to your Telegram chat.

What this workflow does

• Runs daily at 8am on a schedule.
• Loads a list of YouTube channel IDs, a configurable lookback window (hours), and your Telegram chat ID.
• Fetches each channel’s YouTube RSS feed and continues even if a channel feed fails.
• Filters to keep only videos published within the lookback window.
• Prevents duplicates by removing videos that were already sent in previous executions.
• Uses Google Gemini (PaLM) to create a summary consisting of a one-sentence summary plus a “Worth watching if” line based on the RSS title and description.
• Builds an HTML Telegram digest and splits it into multiple messages when needed to stay within Telegram’s message length limit.
• Sends the message(s) to your configured Telegram chat.

Use cases

• Stay up to date on niche YouTube channels without manually checking feeds.
• Share a daily “what’s new” digest with a team via Telegram, complete with AI takeaways.
• Automate content monitoring for SaaS operators tracking competitor or creator updates.

Technical details

• Nodes/tech stack: set, code, filter, split out, telegram, sticky note
• Integrations: YouTube RSS feeds, Google Gemini (PaLM), Telegram
• Setup: add a Gemini API credential, create a Telegram bot with an n8n Telegram API credential, set the Telegram chat ID, and replace the example YouTube channel IDs.