Personalized Learning Roadmaps with Gemini, YouTube & Gmail (n8n)

Turn a form signup into a personalized learning roadmap—automatically

This n8n workflow collects a learner’s topic, skill level, and email, then uses Google Gemini to generate YouTube search queries and a structured learning plan. It fetches matching videos via the YouTube Data API and emails a mobile-friendly HTML roadmap through Gmail.

What this workflow does

• Receives learner input from an n8n form submission (topic, current level, and learner email address).
• Uses Google Gemini to create three, level-appropriate YouTube search queries for the submitted topic.
• Searches YouTube using the YouTube Data API v3, pulling up to five videos per query.
• Curates the results by extracting key video details (video ID, title, channel, description, and publish date) into a simplified list.
• Generates a clean HTML roadmap with clickable YouTube links using a second Gemini step, tailored to the learner and formatted for mobile.
• Sends the learning plan to the learner via Gmail

Use cases

• Onboarding new users into a course or learning program with an instant, personalized plan.
• Building an “AI study buddy” experience for SaaS customers: topic + level in, roadmap + videos out.
• Creating scalable learning recommendations for communities, cohorts, or newsletters.
• Prototyping an n8n automation workflow that combines Gemini content generation with YouTube discovery.

Technical details

• n8n Form Trigger to capture topic, level, and email.
• Google Gemini (PaLM) via n8n-nodes-langchain for generating queries and producing the HTML learning roadmap.
• YouTube Data API v3 (HTTP request) to fetch matching videos for each Gemini-generated query.
• Gmail (OAuth2) to deliver the HTML roadmap to recipients.
• Setup includes adding Gemini API credentials, Gmail OAuth2, and a YouTube Data API key (or replacing the hard-coded key).