7. Handling files
Processing files in a workflow allows users to efficiently preview, download, compress, and uncompress a variety of file types.
Advanced file handling for building workflows
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📂 In this video, we'll look at an advanced feature of building workflows: file handling, and introduce a new option for node output called binary view .
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🖼 The binary output provides important information about the file, such as file name, directory, type, size, etc., whereas the table, JSON, and schema views remain empty when processing only files.
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🔄 The example demonstrates the functionality of binary viewing by showing how an HTTP request can retrieve a file so that the user can preview or download it directly.
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📦 We also discussed key nodes for file handling, including compressing and decompressing files using the zip format, which is useful for self-hosting and converting JSON objects .
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📥 Learn how to retrieve multiple files by executing an HTTP request and compress them into a single zip file for easy storage or transfer.
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📤 This video walks you through the process of requesting a zip file, unzipping it, and extracting multiple files, while emphasizing the need to split it into separate binary entities for further processing.
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🔧 We used code nodes to split binary files into separate entities so that each file can be processed efficiently in subsequent workflow steps .
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🎥 In the next video, we'll cover enterprise features that can take your workflow building to the next level.
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This video covers advanced file handling features, including an additional binary view option when processing files.
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When reading images or documents, this feature allows you to preview the files or download them to your computer.
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Binary output includes additional information such as file name, directory, file type, size, etc.
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You can preview or download files via Binary View .
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As an example, we will explain the process of retrieving a file via an HTTP request and previewing or downloading binary data.
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Introducing useful nodes related to file handling: compressing/decompressing, reading/writing files from disk, converting JSON objects to file formats, etc.
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An example of how to process files in n8n.
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Explains the process of retrieving an image file using the HTTP request node , and previewing and downloading the file in binary view .
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Demonstration of the process of compressing two files into a ZIP file via the Compress node.
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Conversely, the process of requesting a ZIP file and decompressing the data is described.
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Import a ZIP file and use the Unzip node to separate the files.
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An example demonstration of using code nodes to split an unzipped file into individual items.
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Describes the process of dividing each separated file into binary items and processing them.