🎦💌 Advanced YouTube RSS Feed Buddy for Your Favorite Channels
This workflow provides an intelligent solution that helps users automatically generate and manage RSS feeds for their YouTube channels, regularly monitoring multiple channels and fetching the latest videos. It can accurately tag new content released within the past three days and send instant notifications via Telegram and Gmail, supporting various email formats. Users can flexibly configure channels to enhance information retrieval efficiency, making it easier for content creators and regular users to stay updated on their favorite channels, thereby optimizing their work and life experience.

Workflow Name
🎦💌 Advanced YouTube RSS Feed Buddy for Your Favorite Channels
Key Features and Highlights
- Automatically generate and manage custom RSS feeds for YouTube channels
- Scheduled monitoring of multiple channels, fetching up to 15 latest videos per channel
- Accurately tag new videos published within the last 3 days for efficient content filtering
- Support instant notifications via Telegram with video thumbnails and links
- Send email notifications through Gmail in two formats: individual emails per new video or consolidated summary emails
- Utilize YouTube Data API to retrieve detailed video information, combined with OpenAI to generate responsive, multi-email-client-compatible HTML email templates
- Flexible configuration allowing users to input custom channel IDs via form or use a preset default channel list
Core Problems Addressed
- Solves the difficulty of conveniently aggregating and promptly pushing the latest videos from multiple favorite YouTube channels
- Automates content monitoring and notifications, eliminating the hassle of manually checking each channel for updates
- Provides multi-channel notification methods to improve content reach and user experience
- Enhances information presentation with professionally formatted emails, boosting the professionalism of content dissemination
Use Cases
- Content creators and video bloggers monitoring competitors or industry trends
- Marketing professionals tracking brand-related YouTube channel activities
- General users customizing subscriptions to favorite channels for timely update alerts
- Media agencies or news platforms automatically aggregating and pushing video content
Main Workflow Steps
- Trigger input via form or use a default list of YouTube channel IDs
- Parse channel IDs and dynamically generate YouTube RSS feed URLs for each channel
- Read each channel’s RSS feed and fetch the latest 15 video entries
- Filter and tag videos published within the last 3 days
- Retrieve detailed video information (title, thumbnail, description, etc.) via YouTube Data API
- Generate responsive HTML email templates using OpenAI
- Support two email sending modes: single-video emails or consolidated summary emails
- Send Telegram notifications with video thumbnails and links
- Schedule regular runs to ensure daily automatic checks and notifications
Involved Systems and Services
- YouTube Data API (for detailed video information)
- RSS Feed (to obtain channel video lists)
- Gmail (for sending email notifications)
- Telegram (for instant message notifications)
- OpenAI (for generating email content templates)
- n8n Automation Platform (for workflow orchestration and execution)
Target Users and Value Proposition
- Suitable for content creators, video marketers, community managers, and general video enthusiasts
- Improves information acquisition efficiency and enhances content monitoring and user engagement capabilities
- Enables professional, multi-channel content delivery, saving time and improving work-life quality
- Reduces operational costs through automation while increasing the timeliness and accuracy of notifications
This workflow integrates multiple technologies and services to create an intelligent, efficient, and user-friendly YouTube video subscription and notification solution—an ideal assistant for users who want to stay up-to-date with the latest updates from multiple YouTube channels in real time.