Auto-upload Instagram videos to YouTube with GPT-4o and Google Sheets tracking

Name: Auto-upload Instagram videos to YouTube with GPT-4o and Google Sheets tracking
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📊 Description

Automate your cross-platform publishing workflow by automatically uploading Instagram videos to YouTube with AI-optimized titles and tags. 🚀🎬 This workflow runs every six hours, fetches newly posted Instagram videos, checks Google Sheets to avoid duplicate uploads, generates SEO-ready YouTube metadata using GPT-4o, downloads the video in high quality, uploads it to YouTube, and logs the full upload details for tracking. Perfect for creators, agencies, and businesses managing multi-platform content distribution at scale. 📈✨

🔁 What This Template Does

1️⃣ Runs every 6 hours to fetch recent Instagram media via Graph API. ⏰ 2️⃣ Splits the media list and filters for today’s video posts only. 🎥 3️⃣ Checks Google Sheets to see if the video was already uploaded. 🔎 4️⃣ Sends Instagram caption to AI to generate: — a YouTube-optimized title (max 60 chars) — SEO-friendly tags extracted from text + hashtags 5️⃣ Downloads the Instagram video binary file. ⬇️ 6️⃣ Waits 3 seconds to avoid YouTube rate limits. ⏳ 7️⃣ Uploads the video to YouTube with: — title — tags — caption as description 8️⃣ Logs the upload details into Google Sheets (ID, title, link, date, status). 📊 9️⃣ Prevents future duplicate uploads using a spreadsheet lookup. ✔️

⭐ Key Benefits

✅ Fully automates Instagram → YouTube video publishing ✅ AI-generated metadata increases YouTube visibility & search ranking ✅ Duplicate upload prevention ensures clean channel management ✅ Tracks upload history in a Google Sheet for transparency ✅ Requires zero manual downloading, editing, or re-uploading ✅ Ideal for creators, brands, community managers & agencies

🧩 Features

Instagram Business API media fetch
Filter for today’s videos using timestamps
Google Sheets duplicate checker
GPT-4o caption analysis for metadata generation
Structured JSON output for reliable AI parsing
YouTube video upload with custom metadata
Spreadsheet logging with append/update
Automatic scheduling with cron trigger
Full workflow batching & safe retry logic

🔐 Requirements

Facebook Graph API credentials (Instagram Business Account)
YouTube OAuth2 credentials
OpenAI API key (GPT-4o)
Google Sheets OAuth2 credentials
A Google Spreadsheet for tracking uploaded videos
Instagram Business Account ID + Access Token

🎯 Target Audience

Social media creators & influencers
Digital marketing agencies
YouTube automation teams
Brands repurposing Instagram content for YouTube
Content managers handling multiple accounts
Community managers needing hands-free cross-posting

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