n8n Full Course Masterclass 2026 - Part 1/2 | Installation, Core Nodes, Data, & Error Handling

The most complete n8n course on YouTube — structured, no fluff. This is Part 1 of 2, covering everything from installing n8n to mastering every core node and debugging workflows like a pro. Over 11 hours. 35 lessons. All free. New to n8n? This is your starting point. Switching from Zapier or Make.com? This is your upgrade path. 👉 Continue learning in Part 2 →    • n8n Full Course Masterclass 2026 - Part 2/...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN PART 1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Install n8n three ways: Cloud, NPM (local), and Docker — pick what fits your setup ✅ Navigate the n8n interface: Admin panel, canvas, credentials, settings ✅ Understand every node type: Triggers, Actions, Core & App nodes ✅ Master 15+ core nodes: Merge, Set, Aggregate, Loop, HTTP, Code, Sub-Workflows and more ✅ Use expressions and built-in functions to manipulate data dynamically ✅ Debug broken workflows and handle errors before they hit production ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 0:00:00 - n8n AI Automation Course Introduction 0:10:59 – What is Automation + Your First n8n Demo 0:23:08 – What is n8n & Why It's the Best Automation Tool 0:43:29 – n8n vs Zapier vs Make.com — Full Comparison SECTION 2: GETTING STARTED 1:03:29 – How to Set Up n8n Cloud — Step by Step 1:11:29 – Install n8n on Local with NPM (Free) 1:24:24 – Install n8n on Local with Docker Desktop (Free) 1:34:50 – n8n Interface Walkthrough — Admin Panel, Settings & Canvas 1:58:33 – n8n Node Types Explained — Triggers, Apps, Core & Actions 2:14:36 – Build Your First Workflow — Send Welcome Emails Automatically 2:44:31 – Understanding Data in n8n — JSON, Lists & Items Explained SECTION 3: DEEP DIVE CONCEPTS 3:00:25 – How Branching Works — Smart Automations with Multiple Paths 3:26:43 – How to Use the Merge Node — Combine Data Like a Pro 3:48:33 – How to Use the Set Node — Edit Fields, Add & Clean Data 4:22:29 – How to Use the Aggregate Node — Combine & Summarize Data 4:33:45 – How to Use the Remove Duplicates Node — Clean Your Data Fast 4:54:45 – Connect Google Forms & Webhook Node in n8n 5:18:00 – Quick Start Workflow — Connect Airtable, Notion, Slack & Amazon SES 5:53:15 – Master Conditional Logic — If-Else Node & Execution Order 6:08:39 – Loop Over Items Node — Batching & Conditional Logic 6:23:42 – Node Level Error Handling & Debugging 6:38:00 - Optimize Workflows — Build Faster & Scalable Automations 6:52:58 – Expressions & Built-In Functions in n8n 7:14:49 – Code Node — Data Structure, Limitations & Python in n8n 7:31:41 – n8n Item Linking — How Data Flows Between Nodes 7:45:02 – HTTP Node — Connect Any API or Service in n8n 8:05:54 – Hands-On Project: Auto-Save Gmail Attachments to Google Drive 8:25:24 – Pin Data & Edit Output for Faster Automation Development 8:43:10 – Create Mock Data — Test Automations Without Live APIs 9:03:55 – Sub-Workflows in n8n — Stop Duplicating Workflows 9:37:03 – Automate File Management — Master Binary Data in n8n SECTION 4: ERROR HANDLING & DEBUGGING 9:56:55 – Master Error Handling — Build Workflows That Never Break 10:16:13 – Debugging n8n Workflows with Execution Logs 10:33:53 – Error Workflows, Stop & Error Node, Error Trigger Node ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THIS COURSE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This isn't a random collection of tutorials — it's a structured curriculum built to take you from zero to shipping real automations using n8n. 42 lessons across 8 sections. All free on YouTube, forever. I'm Dheeraj Sharma. I help solopreneurs and operators build AI systems that save time and generate revenue — without adding headcount. I've spent 17+ years in content and engineering, and this course is everything I wish existed when I started with n8n. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RESOURCES & LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ Get the AI System from this video → https://store.genaiunplugged.com/ 📋 Full Course Playlist (all 42 lessons):    • n8n Full Course - AI Automation   🔗 Part 2 of this compilation:    • n8n Full Course Masterclass 2026 - Part 2/...   🌐 Subscribe to GenAI Unplugged Substack → https://genaiunplugged.substack.com/ 🤝 Let's connect on LinkedIn →   / dheerajsharma14   📚 Browse all my courses → https://genaiunplugged.com/ Sample data of entire n8n course episodes https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... You can find the code used in AppScript configuration of Google Form as Webhook at the link herE: https://gist.github.com/dheerajsharma... 📖 n8n Official Documentation: https://docs.n8n.io 🛠 n8n Cloud (start free): https://n8n.io 🙌 Like this video? Here's what to do next: ✅ Hit thumbs up to support the channel ✅ Subscribe for weekly AI automation tutorials & lessons ✅ Drop a comment: What AI system would you like me to build next? #aiautomation #n8ntutorial #n8n