Automated video monitoring

The videos that matter, transcribed and filed hourly.

Sector : Monitoring — Distr'Action

The context

Following what is being said on a subject means watching hours of video, or not following it at all.

The problem

Nobody has time to watch. And a video you have not watched is information you do not have.

What was built

New videos from the channels you follow are spotted automatically, transcribed, cleaned and filed into a table you search by keyword. You read in two minutes what took forty.

What it changes

Monitoring that runs every hour unattended, and degrades gracefully: if a video has no subtitles, the audio is downloaded and transcribed.

How it works

A twenty-six-node n8n workflow: playlist read, deduplication against what is already filed, transcription by a dedicated service, fallback to audio transcription when subtitles are missing, text cleanup, and a write to Google Sheets. The list of channels followed is driven from the table itself.

What this could look like for you

The fallback is the important part: an automation that gives up at the first edge case is only a demo. This one runs every hour without being watched.