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Automations keep your website updated by turning videos from your YouTube channel into articles. Convert new uploads, work through your existing videos, or do both. Open Automation settings to choose which videos to convert and how to publish them. You can enable new videos, existing videos, or both independently.
New and existing video automations share your plan’s monthly allowance for articles from videos, using one article per video. New uploads get priority; any allowance left at the end of each monthly cycle is used for existing videos when that automation is enabled. Automations don’t spend your extra article credits. Learn about usage and credits.
Automation settings with separate publish modes for new and existing videos, video order, and Manage videos

New videos

Turn on Convert new videos to automatically create articles as you publish new videos on YouTube. Then choose a Publish mode to publish them automatically or save them as drafts. If you use up your monthly allowance, eligible new uploads wait. When your allowance resets, waiting uploads get priority, oldest first.

Existing videos

Turn on Convert existing videos to gradually turn your existing YouTube videos into articles using your remaining monthly allowance. This automation has its own Publish mode, so you can handle existing videos differently from new uploads. Use Order to choose which videos are converted first:
  • Newest first — Start with your most recently uploaded existing videos.
  • Most viewed first — Start with the existing videos that have the most YouTube views.

Manage your videos

Click Manage videos to view your channel’s videos. Open a video’s menu to:
  • Prioritize for automation — Move it ahead of your saved video order for the next available automatic conversion batch.
  • Remove from automation — Exclude it from automatic conversion.
  • Add to automation — Include a previously excluded video again.
Prioritizing a video is free. To convert it without waiting for the next automatic batch, you can generate it manually. Manual conversions use your monthly allowance first, then extra credits.

Publishing options

Choose a Publish mode separately for new and existing videos:
  • Auto publish — Publish articles as soon as they’re generated.
  • Save as draft — Keep articles unpublished so you can review and edit them first.
You can change these choices independently—for example, publish articles from new videos automatically while saving articles from existing videos as drafts.

Generation settings

Automated articles use your website’s saved generation settings, including your preferences for writing style, screenshots, links, and custom instructions. To change them, open Writing defaults in Settings and click Edit. You can also save settings as defaults while converting videos manually.

Turn off an automation

Turn off Convert new videos or Convert existing videos to stop that type of automatic conversion. You can keep one enabled while the other is off.