AI YouTube Trend Analyst & Content Idea Generator

Unlock Viral Content Ideas with this AI Agent

This AI-powered n8n workflow acts as your personal YouTube Trend Analyst. It proactively helps content creators, solopreneurs, and marketing teams discover what's currently trending in any specific YouTube niche. By interacting with this agent via a chat interface, you can request trend analysis for a niche. The agent then intelligently uses a specialized YouTube search tool to find recent, relevant videos, analyzes their metadata (titles, tags, descriptions, view counts, likes, comments), and identifies emerging patterns and hot topics. It doesn't just list videos; it provides actionable insights into what content strategies are succeeding, helping you generate fresh, data-driven video ideas that resonate with audiences.

Key Features & Benefits

• AI-Driven Trend Spotting: Leverages LLMs (via OpenAI) and Langchain to understand your niche request and analyze YouTube data for emerging trends.
• Niche-Specific Analysis: Asks for your content niche to provide highly relevant insights, rather than generic trending lists.
• Intelligent YouTube Search: Utilizes a custom tool (sub-workflow) to perform targeted searches for top-performing videos published in the last 48 hours.
• Comprehensive Data Extraction: Gathers crucial video metrics including views, likes, comments, descriptions, tags, and channel information.
• Pattern Recognition & Insight Generation: The AI goes beyond raw data to identify patterns in titles, tags, and content themes, explaining why certain topics are trending.
• Actionable Content Ideas: Delivers concise summaries of trending themes and provides direct links to example videos and channels for inspiration.
• Time-Saving Automation: Automates the laborious process of manual trend research, freeing you up to focus on content creation.
• Interactive Chat Interface: Easily request analyses and receive insights through a conversational interface (e.g., n8n's chat UI or integrated chat platforms).

• An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted) with Langchain nodes enabled.
• OpenAI API Key with access to a suitable model (e.g., gpt-3.5-turbo or gpt-4).
• Google API Key with YouTube Data API v3 enabled.
• YouTube OAuth2 credentials configured in n8n for the YouTube node within the sub-workflow.

1. Download the n8n workflow JSON file for the main AI Agent.
2. You will also need the associated 'youtube_search' sub-workflow (referenced by ID N9DveO781xbNf8qs in the main agent's 'youtube_search' tool node). Download this sub-workflow JSON if provided separately, or ensure it's part of a package.
3. Import both the main AI Agent workflow and the 'youtube_search' sub-workflow into your n8n instance.
4. Configure the main AI Agent workflow:
   • Open the 'openai_llm' node and connect your OpenAI credentials (API Key).
5. Configure the 'youtube_search' sub-workflow:
   • Open the 'get_videos1' (YouTube) node and connect your YouTube OAuth2 credentials.
   • Open the 'find_video_data1' (HTTP Request) node. In its 'Query Parameters', ensure the 'key' parameter's value is set to your Google API Key (e.g., {{ $env["GOOGLE_API_KEY"] }}). It's recommended to store your API key as an n8n environment variable.
6. (Optional) Customize the systemMessage in the main 'AI Agent' node for more specific instructions or to fine-tune its analytical approach.
7. Activate both workflows. The main AI Agent workflow is typically triggered by the 'chat_message_received' node. You can test it by sending a message (e.g., 'What's trending in AI tools?') via the n8n chat interface or a connected chat application.