I’m building an automation where I provide a list of search phrases, then for each phrase the scenario queries YouTube and retrieves up to N video IDs. After that, the videos are analyzed and a summary is emailed to me.
My issue is the following:
For example, if I start with 3 search phrases and request up to 5 results per phrase, Make runs the iteration 3 times, and I end up receiving 3 separate emails—one per phrase. What I want instead is to merge all results into a single array, so that I get one combined list of 15 videos (in one email), not separate operations.
What is the correct way to “collapse” all iterative outputs into one array before sending the final email?
I’d recommend going through the Make Academy if you haven’t yet!
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Thank you so much for your help — everything you suggested worked perfectly.
I also appreciate your recommendation to go through Make Academy (by the way, that´s a fantastic course). I’m indeed going through it, but as you probably can guess, even completing the Advanced level doesn’t necessarily mean that all the knowledge has settled in — there is really a lot to absorb. In my opinion, the ideal approach is to take the course more than once and work on a real automation case in parallel, something that you personally need. That’s what I’m doing now.
Now I have a follow-up question.
In my first module (Set multiple variables), I intentionally provided 2 identical search terms. I would like to understand how I can remove duplicates later, so that any duplicate videos are filtered out. (The reason is that I’m planning to use a long list of search phrases, and if 2 different search phrases return the same video ID, I don’t want to process or analyze those videos twice).
In addition, after the first HTTP > Make a request module, I added a “Limit items” module to trim the results and keep only the number of videos I need. I noticed that even when I specify the maximum number of results in the YouTube API request, sometimes the API still returns 25 results per search phrase.
Could you please explain why this happens and how to properly deduplicate video IDs in this scenario?
3. Have a different/follow-up question? Start a new topic.
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