How to summarise a YouTube channel's latest video into a Google Doc daily with Make

Research & monitoringMake

The problem

Following a channel you like means checking for new uploads every day just to see whether they are worth watching.

Tools needed

• Make
• YouTube module
• Hugging Face (summarisation)
• Google Docs

Step-by-step recipe

1. Add a Make scheduler that fires daily (9 AM in the source).
2. Use the YouTube module to look up the channel and get the latest video's title and description.
3. Send that text to a Hugging Face summarisation model with a set summary length.
4. Create or find a Google Doc.
5. Append the summary with the date and video link.

Copyable prompt

Summarise this new video from [CHANNEL] in 3 bullet points based only on the title and description. Add one line: "Watch if you care about: ...". If the description is too short to summarise, say "Description too short, check the video."

Title: {{title}}
Description: {{description}}

What the builder reported

The author says the daily check-and-copy work no longer needs doing by hand. No measured results; the summary only covers the title and description.

These are the source author's own claims. AgentRecipes has not tested or verified them.

Watch out for

• The summariser only sees the title and description, not a transcript, so quality depends on how detailed the description is.

Source

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