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This workflow follows the Form → Form Trigger recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.
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"name": "Analyze YouTube Videos and Generate Summaries with Gemini AI",
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"content": "## Note \nThis workflow takes as input a YouTube link (required) and a description of what you want to analyze from the video. If the description field is left empty, the default prompt will generate a detailed summary and description of the video's contents. However, you can ask for something more specific using this field/input."
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"content": "## Analyze YouTube Videos and Generate Summaries with Gemini AI\n"
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"parameters": {
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"formTitle": "Analyze YouTube Videos and Generate Summaries with Gemini AI",
"formFields": {
"values": [
{
"fieldLabel": "Video URL",
"placeholder": "www.youtube",
"requiredField": true
},
{
"fieldLabel": "What do you want?",
"placeholder": " Summarize in 3 sentences"
}
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"formDescription": "I'll analyze the contents of your YouTube video!\n"
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"notes": "If description is empty asign it the defoult prompt, else use the description given as the prompt to send to Google Gemini",
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"jsCode": "// Loop over input items and add a new field called 'myNewField' to the JSON of each one\nfor (const item of $input.all()) {\n item.json.myNewField = 1;\n\n if ($input.first().json['What u want?'].trim() == \"\") {\n $input.first().json['What u want?'] = \"Please be as descriptive as possible about the contents being spoken of in this video after giving a detailed summary.\";\n}\n\n}\n\nreturn $input.all();\n// End of Code"
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"options": {},
"jsonBody": "={\n \"contents\": [\n {\n \"parts\": [\n {\n \"text\": \"{{ $json['What u want?'] }}\"\n },\n {\n \"file_data\": {\n \"file_uri\": \"{{ $json.Video }}\"\n }\n }\n ]\n }\n ]\n}",
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"parameters": {
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"buttonLabel": "Another Analysis?",
"formDescription": "={{ $json.candidates[0].content.parts[0].text }}"
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"connections": {
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"Analysis result": {
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About this workflow
This workflow takes two inputs, YouTube video URL (required) and a description of what information to extract from the video. If the description/"what you want" field is left empty, the default prompt will generate a detailed summary and description of the video's contents.…
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