# darkzOGx/youtube-automation-agent

🎬 Fully automated YouTube channel management with AI agents. Creates, optimizes & publishes videos 24/7. Works with FREE Gemini API or OpenAI. No coding required!

Repository: https://github.com/darkzOGx/youtube-automation-agent
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/youtube-automation-agent
Homepage: https://github.com/darkzOGx/youtube-automation-agent#readme
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai-agents, ai-powered, automation, content-automation, content-creation, content-strategy, free-tool, google-gemini, javascript, nodejs, openai, seo-optimization, social-media-automation, thumbnail-generator, video-generation, youtube-api, youtube-automation, youtube-bot, youtube-channel, youtube-uploader
Last push: 2026-08-25T19:15:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 93, longevity 27
- inputs: {"age_days": 384, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 48, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2666, forks 741 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:07.381829+00:00)

## What it is
AgentTube is a self-hosted Node.js application that uses AI agents to run a YouTube channel end to end: researching topics, writing scripts, generating narration and visuals, assembling videos, optimizing metadata, and scheduling/publishing with human approval gates. It works with the Gemini or OpenAI APIs and optionally integrates DarkzSEO for discoverability audits and growth experiments.

## Use cases
- automate a faceless youtube channel with ai
- generate and upload youtube videos automatically
- ai agent that researches topics and writes video scripts
- auto-generate youtube thumbnails and seo metadata
- schedule and publish videos 24/7 without coding
- track youtube analytics and optimize content strategy
- run a youtube channel with free gemini api

## When to choose
- you want an end-to-end, self-hosted YouTube automation pipeline with human approval gates
- you prefer free Gemini API or OpenAI flexibility and no coding setup
- you need SEO audits, A/B title/thumbnail experiments, and analytics-driven iteration built in

## When to avoid
- you need hands-on creative control over every video rather than agent-driven automation
- you want multi-platform publishing today - TikTok/Instagram adapters are still planned
- you cannot run Node.js 18+ locally or manage API credentials yourself

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, llm-inference, workflow-automation, scheduling, video-processing, image-processing, nlp, analytics, api-framework
- domain: social-media, large-language-models, media, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cli, cross-platform
- tags: youtube-automation, content-creation, seo-optimization, thumbnail-generation, video-publishing, gemini, openai, faceless-channel, approval-workflow, sqlite, ai-agents, automation, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- darkzOGx/youtube-automation-agent (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:07.381829+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:18:15.791047+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/darkzOGx/youtube-automation-agent (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:07.381829+00:00, sha 935d10ca31e5)
  - homepage: https://github.com/darkzOGx/youtube-automation-agent#readme (fetched 2026-08-29T10:01:09.417287+00:00, sha 37bf69babe7b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.