Don't find Excel node or Spreadsheet

[Hogan]

Hi lovely people,

I’m new to n8n, and I’m hosting it on my pc with docker and node.js. I want to use an excel sheet but I’m not able to find something even a “spreadsheet” file or something is not there. I’m not having 365 products

I don’t want to use google or google Cloud, why it’s not possible to use Excel?

n8n version: 1.105.4

• Database (default: SQLite): ?

• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): I don’t know how to check that

• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker Desktop App

• Operating system: Win 11

Kr,
Kevin

[jabbson]

Hey @Hogan hope all is good. Welcome to the community.

What is it you are looking to do with Excel files in n8n? On the first screenshot I see Microsoft Excel 365, right?

[Hogan]

Hi, thank you,

well I found an example in your templates in n8n for news. I wanted to have some news in different topics and I want to avoid duplicates and at the end I want to send it to me via mail, that’s all

Here is mine:
But I need to create a google cloud account etc. I don’t want that and I don’t feel comfortable with that

That’s been the original:

Automate Daily AI News with Perplexity Sonar Pro (via Telegram) | n8n...

[jabbson]

Why do you feel you need an excel for that? What are you trying to avoid with Google Sheets? The part where the sheets are online or that are hosted with Google?

[Hogan]

I need to create a google cloud account. Why it’s not possible to do that in a simple excel sheet?

Or can I do that also with a normal Google Mail Account using a new Sheet from that E-Mail Account? Is that possible? I’m asking because only Google Cloud is mentioned in the n8n doc files. Maybe I missunderstood something I don’t know..

Google OAuth2 single service | n8n Docs

[jabbson]

How do you feel about Airtable instead? Would you be mode comfortable with Airtable?

[Hogan]

Thx, but unfortunately, that doesn’t answer my questions.
Can I use a normal Google Sheet here, or do I have to go to the cloud specifically for my process?

[jabbson]

Aha, finally I see the issue is that you don’t want to have the sheet to be somewhere in the cloud, ok. So you are looking for it to remain locally, I am guessing.

In this case, you can store whatever data to the local file via Convert to File node:

Then save the file as binary with Write File node:

Same for reading the binary file and then reading from the file.

What I would suggest is stop and think - WHY do you feel you need a sheet to begin with?

[Hogan]

Ah okok cool

well I have no idea, unfortunately. I just want to find something “simple” that worked. If AI can filter duplicates that would be great. I didn’t test it till now. There are so many informations it’s a bit overhelming..