Get any node's output

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Newbie question.

Is there a way to capture/get any node’s output?

I’m have a “Read Pineconce Vector Store” node that cant’n connect to a node like “code” to get it’s output besides the embeddings and retriever.

Since I can view the output into the “output” UI, Iwould expect to be able to just… use it

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you can access a node that you have previously executed as long as it is connected to the current node, like this:
$("code").item.json for the current item
$("code").first().json for the first item

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Thankyou @KHarv , I will ask for a bit more of help, complete newbie trying to learn ASAP.

Do you mean I can access to that Vector Store Retriever output data from the code/function node?

I’ve tried by $node[“Vector Store Retriever”].json

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That’s slightly different as the Q/A chain is a complex node. In that case I believe you would have to set up a manual chain of LLM and vector store (like Pinecone node) and then you should be able to read the vector output further down in the flow.

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