Automatically retry failed automations
task_admin
When a new YouTube video is uploaded, I tried to run a very simple automation that summarizes the content through a script.
But it "fails" too often.
Why does it fail?
If it fails, is there an option to retry?
It seems that it takes a certain amount of time for the script to be generated after the video is uploaded.
If you run the command to load the script...I think it should be done with a slight delay.
This is my opinion, so please check it and reflect it if necessary.
If it is possible to change the loading interval, which is currently fixed at 15 minutes, to at least 15 minutes or 1 hour or 2 hours, please apply it.
When the option to automatically upload a YouTube video summary to a blog is enabled, the only site that is currently enabled is WordPress, but please allow other sites to do so as well.
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John at Taskade
This is a known pain point — especially with YouTube automations where transcript generation has a delay after upload, causing false failures.
Good news: we've shipped retry handling for failed automation runs in v6.99.0, and earlier in v5.19.0 we added support for retrying failed automation runs. If you're not seeing the retry option, make sure you're on the latest version.
For the YouTube-specific case, the transcript may not be ready immediately after upload — a workaround is adding a short delay step before the summarization action to give YouTube time to generate the script. We're also working on smarter trigger timing for external content sources. Vote and describe your exact automation at taskade.com/create. See the changelog at https://taskade.com/changelog and join us at taskade.com/community!
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Narek Zograbian
That sounds like a bug. Could you reach out to support@taskade.com and provide the flow ID as well?
Your Flow ID is the string of digits found at the end of the URL when viewing a flow, for example in https://www.taskade.com/f/01HK99EZ3HBVTJVJ2M3RDR2H
01HK99EZ3HBVTJVJ2M3RDR2H is the Flow ID, this will help us find any error logs your automation might have produced.
task_admin
Narek Zograbian The latest ID is 01JCJTYWYYVTFZJEE8MSGZZ7F5
I think that when a YouTube video is newly updated, the automatic language script generation time is different depending on the association.
So, if the time the video is updated and the time for automatic checking every 15 minutes are not enough for the script generation time, the error occurs.
If what I thought is right.. I would like to suggest one method.
Suggestion) It would be good to have a function that can automatically try again after 15 minutes for YouTube videos that have errors. (It takes 1 hour in total with 2-3 attempts at 15 minute intervals - I don't think this will put a big load on the server.)
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ryantaskade
task_admin: Hi there, thank you for the information, your hypothesise might be correct if the time of upload is close to the 15 minute intervals and subtitles for the videos aren't generated yet, you can attempt to retry the automation run by clicking on the "refresh" like icon next to the failed run to try that run again.
I've also modified the title of this post to better match your feature request