Hi, I am looking for some help with the following:
I manage about everything in Notion. I store my files in Box. I have several automations in n8n to import files in Box and create database entries in Notion. All works pretty well. One of the things I manage in Notion are my documents. In the database entries is a share-link to Box where the actual files are stored. So far so good.
When I look at the database for my documents in Notion, it is not very sexy and easy to work with. Each document has a line with title and other info. It looks like this:
What I would want to do is create a picture gallery in Notion with a preview if the document. It is much easier when searching a specific document and it looks much better. I know this can work and it looks like this:
This can work if you place the thumbnail as the first picture in the Notion page. But extracting them and uploading them manually would be a pretty boring and big task. This is why I started working with n8n in the first place to automate things like this.
Can someone help me to get this done?
What I have tried:
- I tried to GET the thumbnail from Box with the HTTP node. But I get a credential error when using the oauth2 credentials saved in n8n. I can get the file itself with the same HTTP node and create a sharelink, but I cannot get the Thumbnail.
https://developer.box.com/reference/get-files-id-thumbnail-id/ - I tried importing a curl from the same API Box page with a API acces token. This downloaded a file, but it is a pdf logo. It is not the thumbnail of the file.
- I tried looking for an alternative in a third party website for extracting a thumbnail from the first page of the PDF. Like a OCR service. But did not find anything.
Is there anybody who has done something simular and wants to share his/her experiences?
Is there anybody who can help me further with this?
Thanks in advance.
