n8n YouTube RSS to Discord with AI Summaries Workflow

Automatically share new YouTube uploads to Discord—plus AI-generated video summaries

This n8n YouTube RSS to Discord with AI Summaries workflow monitors your YouTube channel for new videos and posts a Discord announcement that includes a concise AI summary generated from the video captions. It’s a fast, content-friendly way to keep your community engaged and help members quickly decide what to watch next.

What this workflow does

• RSS Feed Trigger: Watches your YouTube channel’s RSS feed for new uploads using the URL format: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=YOUR_CHANNEL_ID.
• Video captions retrieval (via YouTube API): Fetches detailed content data—specifically the video captions—to provide source material for summarization.
• AI summary generation: Uses an AI model to produce concise summaries that highlight key points from the captions.
• Discord notification: Sends the video link/announcement and the AI-generated summary to a specified Discord channel using a webhook.

Use cases

• Community management: Auto-post new creator videos with summaries so members can scan highlights.
• Content creators: Share uploads to your Discord server while reducing manual posting work.
• SaaS operators & teams: Distribute product tutorial or release videos with clear takeaways to stakeholders.

Technical details

• RSS Feed monitoring to detect new YouTube uploads
• HTTP Request to retrieve captions via the YouTube API
• AI summarization using n8nn8n-nodes-langchainopen ai (connect your OpenAI account in n8n)
• Discord webhook integration to post announcements
• Built with nodes including: set, discord, sticky note, http request, extract from file, and n8nn8n-nodes-langchainopen ai

Watch the tutorial: https://mrc.fm/ai2d