I'm having trouble referencing binary data pulled from a zip file

Hi there,

I’m using the web hosted instance of n8n, and trying to unzip a file containing multiple images, chose one or two of them depending on some logic, then uploading the matching images to supabase.

I can’t seem to access the binary data inside of the unzipped file from any other node type, and have tried several options to try to convert it to JSON, base64, etc to get it to play nice with the UI. I think I don’t fully understand what the UI is displaying as a binary file and therefore am lost as to next steps. ChatGPT is suggesting I reverse engineer the URL the image is hosted at in n8n, but that seem wrong. Help please!

  1. Download zip (from APIfy) –
  2. Unzip:
  3. Attempt to cast to base64 in JSON:

… Super confused as to how to just reference the individual binary data of each of the images unzipped earlier. They do render / are stored (I can click “view” to see them).
How do I just grab each binary file (vs the surrounding metadata like filename, etc) and write it to supabase?

Thanks!

Hi @postwell

The scrreenshot #3, You just need to pass the Input Binary Field name