Using YouTube and Gemini to Create Blog Content

I was recently using Google’s Gemini AI to get quick summaries of videos posted on YouTube. It proved to be a much more effective way to extract the main content message and key takeaways without having to view the whole video from start to finish.

Here is a breakdown of how I developed a simple prompt workflow to completely automate my content creation process for this blog.

Step 1: The Basic AI Video Summary

I initially achieved the video analysis with this straightforward prompt:

“Summarise this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0123456789”

This worked perfectly for extracting the knowledge, but I wanted to make the output more visually engaging for my readers.

Step 2: Embedding the YouTube Video Player

I thought it would be nice to see the actual video panel that Gemini displays at the bottom of its own summary interface. To bring that functionality to my website, I added this follow-up prompt:

“Ok, this summary has a nice video panel at the end. Is there a markdown way that I can use in a blog post to recreate that video player so users can ‘Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0123456789’?”

There was a solution for that which gave me a nicely formatted post page using an HTML embed code.

Step 3: Automating the Jekyll Markdown Workflow

After repeating these separate prompts a few times for different YouTube videos, I realized I could consolidate the workflow. I pushed the AI a bit further by asking it to write the actual code for my website:

“Ok, pushing it a bit. That summary that you just produced and the youtube.html element you provided, is there any chance you can generate the Markdown sequence to reproduce that on a Jekyll-based website? Of course, there need to be references to accredit the sources and technology used to produce the summary.”

The Final 1-Prompt Solution

By combining these steps, that sequence allowed me to streamline my entire process. Now, I simply use a single master prompt:

“And the same (including Markdown formatting) for this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0123456789”

This results in a 1-prompt Markdown script for a YouTube video summary that is fully formatted, accurately accredited, and completely ready to be published as a new Jekyll blog post.