YouTube Keyword Research n8n Workflow: BeatAPI Summaries

Turn YouTube search into a cited research brief—automatically

Get a topic brief for any YouTube keyword by pulling up to 12 public videos with BeatAPI Social Data and then using a BeatAPI chat/completions model to summarize recurring questions and themes with real citations.

What this workflow does

This n8n workflow (manual trigger) performs YouTube keyword research end-to-end:

• Start manually and set the target YouTube keyword plus the BeatAPI text model to use.
• Search YouTube via BeatAPI Social Data using data:youtube.web.search_video in preview mode to fetch up to 12 public video results from this month (English, US).
• Filter and normalize results into an evidence set containing video IDs/URLs, titles, descriptions, channel information, and the BeatAPI request ID.
• Fail fast if no usable results are found (stops with an error).
• Generate a cited topic brief by sending the evidence set to BeatAPI’s chat/completions endpoint to highlight recurring topics and questions, citing specific videos.
• Return a research draft including the summary plus source metadata (result counts, truncation indicator, and request IDs).

Use cases

• Find what’s trending around a specific YouTube keyword and quickly draft an evidence-based outline for content or product marketing.
• Support SaaS marketing research by identifying recurring viewer questions across current YouTube videos.
• Speed up competitive research: compare theme consistency across multiple channels for a chosen keyword.

Technical details

• n8n nodes: Manual Trigger, Set, Code, Sticky Note, HTTP Request.
• BeatAPI integrations:
  • https://api.beatapi.io/v1/capabilities/run for YouTube video search (data:youtube.web.search_video).
  • https://api.beatapi.io/v1/chat/completions to generate the cited topic brief.
• Auth: add your BeatAPI key to n8n as HTTP Header Auth with Authorization: Bearer <your BeatAPI key>.

If you need YouTube keyword research that outputs a cited summary using BeatAPI and n8n, this workflow is built for you.