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Connect OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) and YouTube integrations

Transform your YouTube content strategy with AI-powered automation. Connect OpenAI's ChatGPT with YouTube through Make to automatically generate video summaries, create optimized metadata, and simplify your entire content workflow—from discovery to publication.

Discover how intelligent automation can analyze trending videos, craft SEO-friendly descriptions, and deliver actionable insights about audience preferences, all without manual effort. Build a complete content pipeline that saves time while improving your channel's discoverability and engagement.

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Create a custom workflow

Transform your content creation with automation between OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) and YouTube. Generate scripts, thumbnails, and transcriptions with OpenAI, then automatically publish videos, upload assets, and optimize descriptions on your YouTube channel—all without manual intervention. Simplify your entire content workflow from creation to distribution in one powerful, trigger-action integration.

Create a custom workflow

Every automation starts with a trigger and an action. Select one from each app to generate a workflow tailored to your needs.

OpenAI (ChatGPT, Whisper)
Trigger: Watch batch completed
YouTube
Action: Select an action
1. Select a trigger

  • Triggers when a batch is completed.

2. Select an action

  • Adds a video to the playlist by its ID.

  • Creates a new playlist in a channel of the authorized account or on behalf of a content owner or their channel, if specified.

  • Deletes a specified playlist.

  • Deletes a YouTube video.

  • Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

  • Creates a reply to the specified comment.

  • Uploads a custom thumbnail and sets it for the video.

  • Uploads and sets a custom banner on the specified channel.

  • Updates details of the specified channel.

  • Updates a playlist in the authorized account or on the account of the owner or their channel, if specified.

  • Updates the metadata of an existing video by its ID.

  • Uploads a video to YouTube and optionally sets the video's metadata.

Select a trigger and an action

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Triggers and actions

Connect YouTube as a trigger and OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) as an action to automate your content workflow. When OpenAI generates content—such as video scripts through ChatGPT, custom thumbnails via DALL-E, or audio transcriptions using Whisper—it triggers automated actions in OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper), including publishing videos, uploading generated assets, creating optimized video descriptions, and posting engaging titles to your channel. This trigger-action integration enables OpenAI's content generation capabilities to automatically initiate corresponding publishing and management actions on OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper), simplifying the entire content creation and distribution process.

Add a Video to the Playlist
Adds a video to the playlist by its ID.
Action
Analyze images (Vision)
Analyzes images according to specified instructions.
Action
Cancel a batch
Cancels an "in-progress" batch. The batch will be in status "cancelling" for up to 10 minutes, before changing to "cancelled", where it will have partial results (if any) available in the output file.
Action
Create a batch
Creates and executes a batch of API calls.
Action
Create a Playlist
Creates a new playlist in a channel of the authorized account or on behalf of a content owner or their channel, if specified.
Action
Create a skill
Creates a new skill.
Action
Create a skill version
Creates a new immutable skill version.
Action
Create a vector store or add files
Creates a new vector store and optionally adds files to it, or adds files to an existing vector store.
Action
Delete a conversation
Deletes an existing conversation.
Action
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How to set up OpenAI (ChatGPT, Whisper) and YouTube in 5 easy steps

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Add the YouTube module to your workflow

Begin by logging into Make and adding a YouTube module to your automation. Click the 'Create a connection' button within the module to start the process of linking YouTube to your Make account.

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Step 2

Sign in with your Google account

Click the 'Sign in with Google' button to connect your Google account to Make. This authentication step allows Make to securely access YouTube on your behalf so it can perform automated tasks.

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Create a Google Cloud Platform project

Set up a new project in Google Cloud Platform by logging in with your Google credentials. Click 'Create or select a project' and then 'New project', give it a name, choose a storage location, and click 'Create' to finalize it.

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Enable the YouTube Data API

Navigate to the 'APIs & Services' section and click on 'Library' in the menu. Search for 'YouTube Data API v3', select it from the results, and click the 'Enable' button to activate this API for your project.

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Set up your connection credentials

Create your client credentials by going to 'Clients' and clicking 'Create Client'. Select 'Web application' as the type, add the Make redirect URL, and click 'Create'. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret that appear and paste them into Make to complete your connection.

Supercharge your YouTube workflow with AI-powered automation

Transform your YouTube content creation with OpenAI integration. Automate video summaries, generate optimized metadata, simplify uploads, and gain strategic insights using ChatGPT and Make's automation platform.

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AI-powered content discovery and summarization

Automatically find YouTube videos by channel or keywords and generate concise summaries with ChatGPT, delivering insights directly to your inbox without manual research.

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Intelligent video metadata generation

Use AI to automatically create optimized descriptions and tags for your YouTube uploads, improving discoverability and SEO without manual copywriting.

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Automated content upload workflow

Automatically upload videos from cloud storage to YouTube with AI-generated content, eliminating repetitive manual tasks and accelerating your publishing workflow.

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Better content strategy intelligence

Combine YouTube's video data with ChatGPT's analytical capabilities to gain actionable insights about content trends and audience preferences for smarter decision-making.

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Streamline YouTube uploads with AI-generated descriptions and tags from Google Drive

Easily upload YouTube videos and shorts using AI-generated descriptions and tags sourced directly from Google Drive to boost your video rankings and simplify content management. Ensure shorts are in 9:16 aspect ratio and less than 60 seconds. Video file size limitations on Make plans: Free: 5 MB Core: 100 MB Pro: 250 MB Teams: 500 MB Enterprise: 1000 MB

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Automate video uploads to YouTube and generate content with ChatGPT

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By connecting OpenAI and YouTube through Make, you can automate content creation workflows like generating video titles, descriptions, and tags using GPT models, transcribing audio with Whisper, creating custom thumbnails with DALL-E, or analyzing comments for sentiment and generating automated responses. This saves hours of manual work and helps you maintain consistent, high-quality content across your channel.

Make's visual workflow builder lets you create powerful automations without coding. You can automatically transcribe new YouTube videos using Whisper and post transcripts as pinned comments, generate SEO-optimized video descriptions with ChatGPT when uploading content, create video summaries from transcripts, translate video metadata into multiple languages, or use AI to analyze viewer comments and flag important questions for response. Make provides pre-built templates to get started in minutes.

Absolutely! Make's OpenAI integration supports all major models including GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, o1, and others. You can use these advanced models to create compelling video scripts, generate trending topic ideas based on your niche, craft personalized responses to viewer comments, optimize your video metadata for YouTube's algorithm, and analyze performance data to suggest content improvements. The integration allows you to harness cutting-edge AI to grow your channel strategically.

Yes, using Make to integrate OpenAI with YouTube is highly cost-effective. Make offers a free tier to start experimenting with automations, and you only pay for the OpenAI API calls you actually use. Compared to hiring virtual assistants or content managers for tasks like transcription, translation, description writing, and comment management, automation can reduce costs by 70-90% while operating 24/7. You'll save both time and money while scaling your content production and audience engagement.