Describe the problem/error/question Input binary data is not accessible in Python (Beta) node. What is the error message (if any)? Instead of base64 data in the data property, there is a following text: filesystem-v2 Please share your workflow Share the output returned by the last node [ { “bina…

hello @napped If I understand your question correctly you want to extract as base 64.

@moosa thank you moving the binary payload to json worked and helped me move forward, however this is just workaround. The original issue that Python node cannot access binary data directly (without moving them to json first) is not solved, so I’m leaving this open for devs to know

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napped October 23, 2025, 9:22am 2

Tested on n8n@1.116.2 cloud and still the same problem. How to let the devs know about this issue?

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