Turn YouTube comments into content ideas with GPT-4.1-mini, Tavily & Apify

Description

This n8n template demonstrates how to turn raw YouTube comments into research-backed content ideas complete with hooks and outlines.

Use cases include:

Quickly mining a competitor’s audience for video ideas. Generating hooks and outlines for your own channel’s comments. Validating content opportunities with live audience feedback.

Good to know

Apify is used to scrape YouTube comments (requires an API token). GPT-4.1-mini is used for both filtering and content generation. Tavily provides fresh research to ground the AI’s responses. All outputs are stored in Google Sheets, making it easy to manage and track ideas.

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How it works