Hello n8n enthusiasts, Describe the problem/error/question I’m exploring n8n with great interest and one of the first thing I want to try is reading local files and process them in my workflow. After searching around I’ve realized, with my surprise, there is no existing node that let me read recur…

Talking about custom nodes, @liam may help with that. But actually, you can iterate over local files with Execute Command node and ls -R command.

I’ve already made a python script that accepts as input a json with the directory to search, exclude and include directory/files, and slice for batch operations, it’s send back a json. (I’ve spent 3 hours trying to find the right syntax for find) https://gist.github.com/diramazioni/1e960f04…

[image] diramazioni: I think this is a basic functionality that should work and be present in n8n Ehm… Actually, n8n is not intended to store anything locally :slight_smile: Moreover, you have very limited access to the local storage on the n8n cloud instances (e.g. you can’t execute any com…

[image] diramazioni: I’ve also tried to run with NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL=* This is for imports to use in the code nodes. You can import npm packages into custom nodes without any extra env setup [image] diramazioni: The node builds fine, and is linked in my local n8n (it was working…

[image] barn4k: Ehm… Actually, n8n is not intended to store anything locally :slight_smile: Actually I’m not storing, just reading btw on premise installations let n8n be used as any other software in your local environment, so this open up a lot of potential use case for n8n… [image] lia…

Good afternoon, You are doing an import inside the custom node? Not sure if that would just work. When I have used external packages in my nodes I always add them to the dependencies in the package.json. This has always worked, so please try that if you haven’t done that yet. :slight_smile: If yo…

Just had a minute to look into it and I couldn’t get it working It looks like it isn’t working because the lib recursive-readdir-files is a ESM only package which n8n doesn’t seem to support yet. Even though the package included docs for how to use with common js, it still gave an error, I believe…

[image] liam: It looks like it isn’t working because the lib recursive-readdir-files is a ESM only package which n8n doesn’t seem to support yet. Yes this is the conclusion I’ve reached as you can see from my first post, but I wonder why there is such a limitation also with custom nodes. I me…

Actually I’ve tried both as just devDependencies (the version in git) and proper dependencies ie: "devDependencies": { "@types/express": "^4.17.6", "@types/node": "*", "@types/request-promise-native": "~1.0.15", "@typescript-eslint/parser": "~5.45", "eslint-plugin-n8n-nodes-ba…

I just want to list my local files! (custom node)

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diramazioni March 25, 2024, 9:43pm 2

I’ve also read this last message from @jon but I hoped it would work even if is an ES module being a custom module

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I just want to list my local files! (custom node)

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