Product Description

AI-Powered YouTube Video Automation: Create, Script, Produce & Publish with n8n + ElevenLabs + PIAPI + Shotstack

Automate Your YouTube Channel — From Idea to Upload

Managing a successful YouTube channel requires consistency, creativity, and hours of repetitive work. Our AI-automated video creation system powered by n8n removes the burden of content production by automating your entire workflow. From generating original video ideas to scripting, designing visuals, producing audio, rendering video, and uploading to YouTube — everything runs on autopilot with the power of OpenAI, ElevenLabs, PIAPI, Shotstack, Creatomate, Google Sheets, Airtable, and YouTube API.

Who Is This For?

• Content creators and YouTubers who want to scale up their publishing schedule without hiring a team.
• Digital marketing teams looking to automate video campaigns across travel, history, or storytelling niches.
• Agencies and freelancers offering managed YouTube content production services.
• Tech-savvy entrepreneurs familiar with n8n, APIs, or automation platforms.

The Problem This Solves

Producing high-quality YouTube content manually is time-consuming. It requires brainstorming topics, writing scripts, creating visuals, generating narration, editing videos, managing assets, and finally uploading to YouTube with the correct metadata. This complex process is difficult to scale, expensive, and prone to human error.

This AI-powered solution solves that problem completely.

What Makes This Product Unique?

Unlike generic video templates or AI voiceover tools, this solution combines multi-platform integration with real-time creative generation. Each video idea is new, script content is generated based on detailed prompts, visuals are created per scene, and videos are rendered and published automatically.

You get a complete AI video production pipeline — 100% hands-free.

How It Works – Step by Step Automation

1. Schedule Trigger

The workflow begins daily or weekly, based on your configuration.

2. Generate Video Idea

n8n uses OpenAI to create an engaging 4-minute YouTube video idea — including title, description, keywords, and a scene structure. It checks Airtable to avoid duplicate ideas.

3. Parse & Store the Idea

The idea is cleaned and saved to both Airtable and Google Sheets, marked with the status “Generated”.

4. Script Generation

OpenAI writes a fully formatted 500–600 word script split into 8–10 scenes, each with narration, visual guidance, and timing. The script is parsed and saved to both systems with status “Scripted”.

5. Image Generation

Each scene’s visual prompt is sent to PIAPI to generate cinematic AI images. n8n waits for 3–4 minutes to ensure all assets are ready.

6. Voiceover & Music

Each scene’s narration is processed with ElevenLabs to generate high-quality voiceovers. Background music is optionally created using text-to-music prompts.

7. Video Rendering

Visuals, narration, and music are combined into a video timeline using Shotstack or Creatomate. Once rendered, the video is saved and marked “Ready”.

8. Automated Upload to YouTube

The system uploads the video to your channel using the YouTube API, with the appropriate title and description. Finally, the status is updated to “Published”.

Included Technologies

Setup Requirements

Before using this system, make sure you have:

• An active n8n instance (self-hosted or cloud-based)
• API keys for OpenAI, PIAPI, ElevenLabs, Shotstack or Creatomate, Airtable, Google Sheets, Gmail, and YouTube
• Preconfigured Airtable base and Google Sheets with “Ideas” and “Production” sheets

Commercial Benefits

• Save up to 90% of your time on content production
• Boost your publishing frequency without hiring more people
• Scale content output while maintaining cinematic quality
• Increase reach with SEO-optimized, AI-generated scripts and visuals
• Track every stage of production from Airtable and Google Sheets dashboards

Why Businesses Love This Automation

This isn’t just a script generator. It’s an end-to-end production pipeline. You can go from concept to YouTube upload without lifting a finger. Whether you run a faceless channel, a travel storytelling brand, or an education channel powered by AI — this tool empowers you to scale creatively and operationally.

Suggestions for Expansion

• Add analytics tracking from YouTube to monitor video performance
• Customize templates and intros/outros for stronger branding
• Include Slack or email alerts at key milestones (script ready, video rendered)
• Integrate with Zapier, Make, or CRM systems to manage leads
• Add support for TikTok, Instagram Reels, or Facebook Video with cross-posting

Final Thoughts

If you’re ready to turn your video creation into a fully automated, AI-powered operation, this is the perfect solution. Whether you’re scaling your personal brand or managing multiple channels, this n8n-based system puts your YouTube video pipeline on autopilot — so you can focus on growth, storytelling, and strategy.

Let the automation work for you — and start publishing videos while you sleep.