N8N Google Drive Node Download returns HTML instead of binary file

Hello community, I’m using the Google Drive Download node in n8n, but instead of getting the actual binary file, the output I receive is just HTML. The file is correctly shared, with permissions set to “anyone with the link”, but the binary data size is much smaller than expected and unusable. This happens even when I share the file as publicly available. I need to download the file in proper binary form because I want to convert it into a URL afterwards. Why is the node downloading the file as HTML instead of the correct binary data, and how can I fix this? Thanks in advance!
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I just did it with the data output and file name, but I think I forgot to add the .jpeg extension. I did it a bit differently through the request and the .jpeg ending was missing. Thanks very much!

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