Hi all 
I am moving one of my scenarios from make.com to n8n. Basically I have to download a file from one platform via HTTP Get request and then upload it to another platform with HTTP Post request, but the file has to be in JSON body. I have managed to do it in make.com where I just mapped “data” field (image 1), where data is passed as binary
image 1
When I download a file with GET request I can see the PDF, but when I try to upload it with POST request I only get metadata from file and no binary data.
Does anyone know how to send binary data in JSON?
Hi @anze.gracar, welcome to the community!
Sending binary data directly inside JSON would require some form of encoding. I am not familiar with make, but I suspect they might use base64 for this purpose (but it’s worth double-checking what exactly your destination API expects).
n8n would not do this automatically, but you can still generate a base64 string based on a file like so:
I am using a Function Item node which can run JS code to build the base64-encoded string for my example file which I am then sending to webhook.site together with a simple human-readable string.
This is the data arriving on the upload server:
Hope this helps!
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ooh, thanks. I works 
I tried converting it to base64 with Move binary data, but it did not work. It works with your code
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Glad to hear, thanks so much for confirming!
This three liner is pretty much vanilla JS/Node.js btw, the only exception is the getBinaryDataBuffer method explained here in case you want to dive deeper into what’s happening here.
