Could someone please show me how to enable NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL=indo-news-scraper in n8n?
I’ve read the docs here: Enable modules in Code node | n8n Docs, but I’m still unsure where exactly to set the variable and how to rebuild the image with Docker.
Thanks in advance!
Hi Darfito_Danurdoro welcome to n8n community 
You can use a Dockerfile like this and modify the Docker Compose to utilize a build stage.
# Use the latest n8n image
FROM n8nio/n8n:latest
USER root
# Install any required packages
RUN npm install -g indo-news-scraper
USER node
docker-compose.yml
restart: always
build: .
environment:
In your environment, you can specify settings like this to ensure all external packages you want to install are allowed.
- NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL=*
or per package
- NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL=indo-news-scraper
ok I still confused about which docker-compose and which dockerfile?
Your not using default docker to deploy you n8n instance? can you pass your config here?
i am using fork from the n8n repo because i want to build custom docker image.
and iam confuse which dockerfile that i have to modified? here i put the dockerfile structure
and I haven’t modified the docker-compose.yaml file at all.
You can follow from this guide:
ok so for example if I want to change the UI such as colors or others I have to fork the n8n repo and then build a custom docker image or I just follow the steps you have provided? honestly I’m confused and sorry about that.
If you wish to make changes to the code, please review the license documentation here:
For self-hosting, it entirely depends on your insight and expertise to understand the documentation. Please read the full guide here:
If you find that too challenging, you might consider using the n8n cloud version:
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