Log new YouTube uploads in a Google Doc each morning
A Make workflow checks a channel’s latest upload at 9 AM, summarizes its title and description with Hugging Face, and saves the summary in Google Docs.
- What they did
- They assembled a five-part Make automation centered on a morning schedule. Each day at 9 AM, a YouTube step checks Matthew Berman’s channel handle and pulls the newest video’s title plus description, then Hugging Face rewrites that text into a shorter recap whose length can be adjusted. Finally, two Google Docs steps handle the document side: one finds or creates the file, and the other adds the new summary.
- How it went
- The repeated chores of checking for the latest upload, copying the details, and filing them away are no longer done by hand, so there is something ready to read each morning. No usage numbers were reported. The output depends on the video description, since the workflow does not read a transcript or the video itself.
- Tips
- If the description is thin, the summary will be thin too. Before relying on it, test the flow once to make sure the right document gets the new entry.
Try it yourself with Make
Build a Make automation for [time] each day that checks the most recent video from [channel URL or handle]. Use an AI summarizer to turn the video’s title and description into a brief note, then add that note, along with the title, link, and date, to [Google Doc name]. Stop and ask me to confirm before creating, changing, or appending any document content.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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