🎯 What is the YouTube Research Agent?

The YouTube Research Agent is an automated workflow built with n8n. It takes a YouTube channel, finds its top videos, extracts transcripts, and generates ready-to-publish LinkedIn posts — all in minutes.

🧠 What It Does

1. Searches a YouTube channel by name.
2. Fetches data: video info, views, and statistics.
3. Identifies top-performing videos by view count.
4. Gets the transcript using Apify.
5. Summarizes and rewrites the transcript into a LinkedIn post using OpenAI.
6. Stores the final post in Airtable, ready to publish.

🛠️ Why You Need It

• Save hours on manual research
• Turn YouTube content into LinkedIn posts fast
• Ideal for content creators, agencies, and marketers
• Scale personal branding and thought leadership on autopilot

⚙️ How to Set It Up

1. Add API Keys

• 🔑 Google API Key → used for YouTube Data API