How to use file upload with OpenAI

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Hi n8n,

I’m building a workflow to process a large Google Sheet using OpenAI. The goal is to add a new column to the sheet based on the results of OpenAI’s processing.

I’m encountering a challenge in sending the entire sheet content to the OpenAI API along with my prompt. I’d like to achieve a similar experience to how I can interact with ChatGPT directly, where I can provide a sheet file with instructions and get a new sheet in return. (I know I can process it row by row, each api call to OpenAi being one row, but it doesn’t suit the scale of my project)

Is it currently possible to send a complete file from a Google Sheet (or some other way, but still keeping it as a file) to the OpenAI API within an n8n workflow? If not, is this a planned feature or is there a workaround I could use? Perhaps I’m missing something in how to structure the API request within n8n.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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n8n version: 1.78.0
Database (default: SQLite): default
n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default
Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): npm
Operating system: Windows

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