🤖 AGENT OF THE WEEK (9/25/25)

Welcome back to Agent of the Week — one I actually needed myself:

My YouTube “Watch Later” is a digital black hole. Cooking hacks, product reviews, interviews… all saved, almost none watched.

So this week I built the Swiss-Army knife of YouTube Summarizers. Give the agent any YT link and it gives you a clean recap: overview, key takeaways, timestamps, and extras (recipes, routines, product lists, guest bios). Perfect for deciding if a video’s worth my time or getting notes after I've watched it.

How it works

1. Open up n8n: Create a new workflow (free plan is enough)

2. Add your model: I used GPT-4.1 mini, but you can swap in Claude, GPT-5, etc.

3. Set up the summarizer agent: The prompt tells the model to act as a Swiss-Army YouTube Summarizer — outputting overview, key takeaways, timestamps, and type-specific extras (recipes, products, routines, interview bios) depending on the video type

4. Fetch the transcript: The agent calls the Apify YouTube Transcript tool to grab the video transcript text and timestamps

5. Format the output: Structured into Overview → Key Takeaways → Must-Watch Timestamps → Type-Specific Sections → Action Steps

6. Send it anywhere: Pipe the summary anywhere (chat, email, Notion, Slack, etc) for easy reference

Bonus: Want the detailed video walkthrough and the exact n8n agent template? Get access to both in our Building AI Agents Community here!

On to the next agent,
AP

P.S. Have an agent idea you want me to build next week? Reply with your idea and I might build it!