Google Chat Connection in 2024 - is it broken?

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Describe the problem/error/question

Hello n8n Community,

I am testing if n8n (selfhosted) can replace Make for us. For this, I am trying to convert some workflows to n8n.

One important thing is, that we want to be able to integrate Google Chat in many of our Workflows. I was a bit sad to see, that not many n8n Users are using it and there is close to no content for it.
Still I wanted to give it a try. I found this Guide: Google Chat Error which is amazing, as the official Docs are not helpful at all.

The Test Workflow is very easy → Touch a Button → Send “Hello World” to a Space. Sadly we cannot send any Message from n8n yet.

What is the error message (if any)?

I receive this Error Message:
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In the edit field, I see this:

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Status

As we couldn’t get it running with the official docs, I searched for Solutions in the n8n Community. Lucky us, we found this thread: Google Chat Error - #11 by treyr with an solution. We followed the Steps and do have the same Setup now. No Error Message on the way.

  • I do have an App called n8n inside the Space
  • I can chat with the bot
  • I did create a webhock
  • I am 100% sure it is the right space Name

=> Still the Error Message is the same. Has anyone a running Google Chat integration with N8N? I have the feeling it is not tested by N8N and just claimed they can support it even when the Integration is not working.

Information on our n8n setup

  • n8n version:
    1.63.4 (Self Hosted)

Thank u for your help.

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Hey @Thomas_F,

Welcome to the community :cake:

I have not used the Google Chat node before so I quickly set it up and it looks like the node is working as expected.

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Did you select your space from the dropdown box or have you typed it in manually?

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Hi,

I cannot select a Space from the Dropdown list, as it is not having any to choose from.

What I tested is, to use my Google Service Account for n8n in Make (works fine) and my Google Service Account from Make in n8n (doesn’t work).

So the issue is not the Service Account.

To be honest, I have no idea where to search for the issue.

What I could do is, to test it with n8n cloud instead of Self.hosted, maybe this is my next step.

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Hey @Thomas_F,

I did my test on self hosted so I know the issue isn’t there. If you are not seeing the space in the drop down it would suggest an issue with the service account.

Have you enabled the Google Chat api for your service account? This was the first issue I hit when trying to use it and the list wouldn’t load. You could check this by opening the browser dev console, going to the network tab, clearing everything in there then clicking on the 3 dots next to the space input field in n8n and selecting refresh. Now back in the browse dev tools there should be an entry for “options” or similar as a GET request, if you click on that then response you may see an error.

If it isn’t that then it could be that the app isn’t in the space but you have said it is and I suspect you have double checked that already.

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Hi @Jon ,

I just started a trial with n8n cloud, did the same Setup as I have in my self hosted n8n and did a quick test. No issue the Message is in Google Chat.

Also I can choose a channel from the Dropdown list now.

I am now going to do the same test with GMail to see, if it will be also like this.

After this I will start investigating, how this can be related to our self-hosted n8n.

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Hey @Thomas_F

That is interesting I would have expected Cloud to have the same issue as it is the exact same process.

Did you try what I had suggested on your self hosted instance to see if there is a hidden error message?