Automated podcast production & publishing with OpenAI, Airtable & Buzzsprout

Automated Podcast Generation with n8n, OpenAI & Buzzsprout

This workflow automatically turns any audio file uploaded to Google Drive into a complete podcast episode. It handles transcription, content generation, blog drafting, social copy creation, thumbnail generation, Airtable record updates, Buzzsprout publishing and finally notifies your team via Slack. It is a full “audio-to-published-podcast” automation that requires no manual editing.

⚡ Quick Start: 10-Step Fast Implementation

1. Connect Google Drive, OpenAI, Airtable, Slack & Buzzsprout credentials. 2. Upload an audio file to the Drive folder. 3. Workflow triggers automatically. 4. Audio → Text transcription via OpenAI Whisper. 5. AI converts transcript into title, show notes, tags, publish date, etc. 6. AI generates social content & blog article. 7. AI generates YouTube thumbnail (URL saved). 8. Data saved to Airtable. 9. Episode uploaded to Buzzsprout. 10. Slack receives final “Episode Published” notification.

What It Does

This workflow automates the complete lifecycle of podcast publishing. Once an audio file is placed inside a Google Drive folder, the system takes over: it transcribes the audio, generates structured metadata, creates rich content including a blog post and multiple social media captions and produces a YouTube-ready thumbnail.

Generated content is saved into Airtable, ensuring you always have a centralized database of episode metadata. The workflow then uploads the processed audio file to Buzzsprout, creating a ready-to-publish podcast entry. Finally, it sends a Slack notification summarizing the episode details.

This workflow eliminates hours of manual podcast editing, writing and uploading — providing a fast, reliable and repeatable content automation pipeline.