How to add my custom node to Add node?

Tk8and15 · February 2, 2023, 1:34am

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(Select the nodes and use the keyboard shortcuts CMD+C/CTRL+C and CMD+V/CTRL+V to copy and paste the workflow respectively)

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Information on your n8n setup

**n8n version:0.213.0
Database you’re using (default: SQLite):
**Running n8n with the execution process [own(default), main]:own
**Running n8n via [Docker, npm, n8n.cloud, desktop app]:npm

MutedJam · February 9, 2023, 11:43am

Hi @Tk8and15, tbh I am surprised they don’t show up in the sidebar, seeing your custom nodes are already on the canvas and thus available to the instance. Mabye our resident node builder @marcus knows more here?

marcus · February 16, 2023, 12:19pm

Hey @Tk8and15,
by default your custom node should be visible in the MISCELLANOUS category of the sidebar and should also appear when you search for the node.

If you want to customize in what category your node appears you can add a codex json file next to your node. The HttpBin node in our n8n-nodes-starter has an example codex file.

github.com

n8n-io/n8n-nodes-starter/blob/master/nodes/HttpBin/HttpBin.node.json

{
	"node": "n8n-nodes-base.httpbin",
	"nodeVersion": "1.0",
	"codexVersion": "1.0",
	"categories": ["Development", "Developer Tools"],
	"resources": {
		"credentialDocumentation": [
			{
				"url": "http://httpbin.org/#/Auth/get_bearer"
			}
		],
		"primaryDocumentation": [
			{
				"url": "http://httpbin.org/"
			}
		]
	}
}