Bookmark New YouTube Playlist Videos

Check a YouTube playlist and save newly seen videos to Raindrop.

Setup

Connect YouTube in Read the first 25 playlist items and enter the playlist ID. Connect Raindrop in Create the Raindrop bookmark using a test token from your Raindrop integration. The collection defaults to Unsorted (ID -1); enter another writable collection ID if needed. Keep workflow State persistent and prevent overlapping runs. One workflow tracks one playlist; reset its saved video IDs when changing playlists.

In n8n, select YouTube OAuth2 and Raindrop OAuth2 credentials, enter the same playlist and collection IDs, and activate the workflow. Open Flow manual runs update the same persistent State as scheduled runs. n8n saves workflow static data for active trigger executions; manual tests do not persist it. Enable one format to avoid duplicate bookmarks.

Behavior

Run manually or on the 30-minute schedule. Each run requests the first 25 playlist items in the order returned by YouTube. This is the original limit, not a full playlist scan: videos beyond that window can be missed. On the first non-empty run, every returned video is bookmarked; later runs bookmark IDs absent from the saved history. Each bookmark links to the video, is titled channel | video title, and has the youtube tag. An empty list creates nothing.

As in the source, the workflow saves all selected IDs before creating bookmarks. If a later bookmark fails, some saved IDs may never have been bookmarked and the next run will skip them. An uncertain creation may already exist. Check Raindrop and repair or reset the saved history before replaying. There is no automatic retry or rollback. The history grows and must fit execution state limits; overlapping runs can create duplicates or overwrite state.

The schedule starts in UTC. n8n Cron V1 chooses a fixed randomized second within each scheduled minute while Open Flow uses minute boundaries. Invalid video IDs, missing titles or channel names, or titles over 1000 characters stop before State changes.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

• Configure a real playlist and Raindrop collection; use Unsorted instead of the source’s 0 collection placeholder.
• Make the original first-25 limit and pre-write ID history explicit, and validate the complete returned batch before saving history.

Adapted from YouTube to Raindrop in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

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