When I add the option in google drive file download to convert it still outputs a docx file, I know I can use an API to do it but just not sure how, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello, to download the file you can use the google drive Download File node
You have to set Put Output File in Field option
As well as the Google File Conversion and set Google Docs to Text (txt) to output the binary file to a field:
Then you can use the ‘data’ field in other nodes like this
i did try this as it’s the logical solution but for some reason even after I add the convert file option in google drive to text it still outputs a docx file.
Oh… sorry didn’t see that it is .docx file. I saw you are using Google Drive and Docs for the conversion so I thought it is a Google Doc.
I don’t think you can actually do it with the Google Drive conversion. It works for google formats but not for MS ones and I don’t know of another n8n node that converts MS docs.
You will either have to open this document in Google Docs and convert it:
Or you’ll have to integrate with a service that can convert docx files (something like groupdocs that has an API) via a community node or custom node/requests.
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PDF.co is a platform I’ve used before to convert between document types.
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