Announce new YouTube videos on Discord

Your community gets a Discord post the moment you publish a video.

Easy Saves ~1 hours/month Content & SocialBy Flowngn team

Works with n8n · Make · Zapier

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How it works

Trigger: RSS — your channel's YouTube feed

Watch your channel feed: youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=YOUR_ID.
Post the title and link to your #announcements channel via a Discord webhook.

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Trigger App

Build it

Pick your tool — same automation, step by step.

Copy and paste straight into an n8n canvas (Ctrl+V), or download and use Import from File. Then connect your own credentials and replace every YOUR_… placeholder.

Workflow JSON

Show code (78 lines)

{
  "name": "Announce new YouTube videos on Discord (Flowngn)",
  "nodes": [
    {
      "parameters": {
        "content": "## Announce new YouTube videos on Discord\nYour community gets a Discord post the moment you publish a video.\n\n**Setup**\n1. Open each node and connect your own credentials.\n2. Replace every YOUR_… placeholder.\n3. Test once, then activate.\n\nFree template from Flowngn",
        "height": 260,
        "width": 340
      },
      "id": "4ef499cc-0161-45a2-a7c1-ca5257bbd61d",
      "name": "Setup notes",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        -420,
        -60
      ]
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "pollTimes": {
          "item": [
            {
              "mode": "everyX",
              "value": 15,
              "unit": "minutes"
            }
          ]
        },
        "feedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=YOUR_CHANNEL_ID"
      },
      "id": "4ef499cc-0161-45a2-a7c1-ca5257bbd61d",
      "name": "New video",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.rssFeedReadTrigger",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ]
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "authentication": "webhook",
        "content": "=🎬 New video: **{{ $json.title }}**\n{{ $json.link }}",
        "options": {}
      },
      "id": "4ef499cc-0161-45a2-a7c1-ca5257bbd61d",
      "name": "Post to #announcements",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.discord",
      "typeVersion": 2,
      "position": [
        300,
        0
      ]
    }
  ],
  "connections": {
    "New video": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Post to #announcements",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  },
  "pinData": {},
  "settings": {
    "executionOrder": "v1"
  },
  "meta": {
    "templateCredsSetupCompleted": false
  },
  "tags": []
}

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Tips

No YouTube API key needed — the RSS feed is public.

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