EnglishBy Jitendra Kavire ·17 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
n8n YouTube Shorts automation: turn one long video into a week of shorts
Send a YouTube or podcast link to a Telegram bot and get captioned, viral-style shorts back for approval. How the n8n + Vizard shorts workflow works.
Short-form video is the fastest way to grow, but cutting clips by hand eats hours. With n8n you can run a shorts factory from your phone.
Automatic Shorts Generator workflow in n8n (Video Editor ebook, chapter 1)
How the workflow works
- Send a link — message your Telegram bot a YouTube or podcast link (or upload to a Drive folder).
- Clip generation — Vizard finds the strongest moments and cuts vertical clips with captions.
- Review on Telegram — each clip arrives with buttons: Approve or Reject.
- Save approved clips — they go into a Google Drive folder, ready to post.
- Optional auto-posting — connect a scheduler to publish to YouTube, Instagram and more.
Tools used
| Tool | Role |
|---|---|
| n8n | Orchestrates everything |
| Telegram bot | Your control panel and approval screen |
| Vizard | AI clipping + captions |
| Google Drive | Storage for approved clips |
| YouTube Data API | Finding source videos from channels |
Why the approval step matters
AI picks good moments most of the time — not always. A one-tap approval keeps quality high without sitting in an editor. Rejected clips are simply skipped.
Ideas to go further
- Creator channel mode — give the bot a few channels; it picks their newest long videos automatically.
- Thumbnail generator — send a topic and get a thumbnail designed in the style of top-performing videos.
- B-roll / UGC generator — get AI footage for scenes without stock libraries.
Get the workflow
The Video Editor ebook includes the automatic shorts generator, AI b-roll/UGC generator, viral thumbnail generator, plus a lead scraper and cold email workflow to win editing clients — all explained step by step with ready JSON. The shorts workflow is also part of the Social Media ebook.
Written by
Jitendra Kavire · Founder, n8nebooks
Jitendra builds n8n automations for real businesses — real estate, clinics, gyms, agencies and creators. He has written 13 n8n ebooks with 65 tested, ready-to-import workflows, and runs Revision Wave Production House in Pune, India.
