YouTube Auto-Upload Builder

I'm Spool. You drop a video in a folder, I carry it up to YouTube. First, where do your videos land?

YouTube Auto-Upload Builder

Six questions about your setup. You get a build prompt that walks you through the n8n workflow step by step, or a SKILL.md for Claude Code, written around your folder, your description layout, your links and your rules.

Where do your finished videos land?

The workflow checks this folder on a schedule and takes one video each time.

DropboxA folder in your Dropbox. n8n can list, download and move files there. Google DriveA folder in your Drive, shared drive or My Drive. OneDriveA folder in your Microsoft OneDrive. A folder on the computer running n8nOnly works if you self-host n8n on that machine.

Folder it watches

Where uploaded videos move to

File types it picks up

Which video goes first?

What kind of videos do you make?

Pick any that fit. This tells the AI what a good title for your channel looks like.

In one sentence, what's your channel?

How should titles and descriptions sound?

Where does each video's info live?

The filename is the key. The workflow reads it, then looks up the rest. Pick where your links and notes for each video are kept.

Just the filenameEverything the AI needs is in the name of the file. A Google SheetOne row per video or product, with links and notes. AirtableA table with a record for each video or product. NotionA database with a page per video or product.

How do you name your files?

What should it pull from that row?

If no row matches the filename, the workflow stops and tells you. It never uploads with a guessed link.

Build your description template

Every upload gets this exact layout. The AI only writes the summary and the hashtags. Your links and disclosure are pasted in word for word, so they're never reworded.

Disclosure

I don't need oneNo affiliate links, no free products. Affiliate linksLinks that earn you a commission. It changes per videoSome products are gifted or sponsored, some you bought.

Your disclosure line

Some of my links go to AmazonAdds the exact line the Amazon Associates program asks for.

The top-line tag for each case

Gifted product

Paid sponsorship

Bought it myself

Your links

Shop, site, socials, a link page. These go at the bottom of every description.

Calls to action

Hashtags per video

Hashtags on every video

Live preview

Public

Your video title, written by the AI

Title rules

Tap any phrase you never want in a title. The workflow checks every title against this list before uploading and sends it back for a rewrite if one slips in.

Longest title, in characters

YouTube allows up to 100. Shorter titles are less likely to get cut off in search.

Fill in YouTube's tags field tooSearch tags that sit behind the video. YouTube caps the whole list at 500 characters.

Schedule and alerts

Uploads per day

First upload at

Time between uploads

Who sees it when it goes up?

PublicLive the moment it uploads. UnlistedAnyone with the link. You flip it public after a look. Private, I review firstOnly you see it until you publish it in YouTube Studio.

Notify my subscribers on every uploadYouTube turns this on by default. Several uploads a day can flood their notifications, so it starts off here.

When an upload works, tell me by

When an upload fails, tell me by

Which task app?

How do you want it?

A build promptPaste it into Claude or ChatGPT. It walks you through the n8n build one node at a time. A SKILL.md for Claude CodeSave it once. Claude Code builds the workflow and remembers your rules for later changes. BothThe prompt now, the skill for later.

Which AI writes your titles inside the workflow?

Your build prompt

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Paste it into a new Claude or ChatGPT chat with n8n open in another tab. It asks you a few things, then builds one node at a time and waits for you to say each one works.

Your SKILL.md

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Save it as .claude/skills/youtube-auto-upload/SKILL.md in your project, then tell Claude Code "build my YouTube upload workflow".

Built by Jen. See how my own videos upload themselves from a folder.