Content & Social Media · n8n

YouTube-to-Blog Converter: every new video becomes a full SEO article, automatically

An n8n workflow that watches a YouTube channel's RSS feed, pulls the transcript of each new video with an Apify actor, and has Claude turn it into a structured blog post — title, headings, FAQ section — saved to Google Sheets ready to paste into your CMS.

difficulty Intermediatesetup 45 minresult One publish-ready article per video, minutes after upload
  1. 1

    Watch the channel feed

    Add an RSS Feed Trigger pointed at https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=YOUR_CHANNEL_ID — every YouTube channel has this free feed, no API key needed. It fires within minutes of a new upload.

  2. 2

    Get the transcript

    An HTTP Request node runs an Apify YouTube-transcript actor synchronously with the video URL. You get back the full spoken text with timestamps. Videos without captions fall back to auto-generated ones, which Claude cleans up fine.

  3. 3

    Write the article with Claude

    An HTTP Request to Claude with a detailed prompt: SEO title under 60 chars, meta description, H2/H3 structure, the speaker's key points preserved in written style (not transcribed speech), a 3-question FAQ, and the video embedded mid-article. Ask for markdown — it pastes cleanly everywhere.

  4. 4

    Queue for your review

    A Google Sheets node appends: date, video title, video URL, article markdown, and a status column defaulting to draft. Your Monday routine: open the sheet, read, tweak, publish. The writing is done; you're just editing.

Frequently asked questions

Whose videos can I convert?

Your own channel — that's the intended use: you already speak the content, this repurposes it into search traffic. Converting other people's videos into articles is plagiarism territory and can violate YouTube's terms; don't build your site on it.

Does Google penalize AI-written articles?

Google's guidance targets unhelpful content, not AI authorship. An article generated from your own spoken expertise, edited before publishing, is exactly the 'people-first' content they describe. The workflow saves drafts to a sheet rather than auto-publishing for precisely this reason — you review, then publish.

Can it post straight to WordPress?

Yes — add n8n's WordPress node after the sheet step (create post, status: draft). We ship it commented out in the workflow notes because auto-publishing unreviewed AI text is how sites get burned. Turn it on once you trust the output.

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