No such file or directory, open image.jpg

[Presley_Nunes_de_Men]

hello!, I’m executing a node http request, but it gives the error: No such file or directory, open

the file path is: C:\Users\Presley\Pictures\foto_jyselly.jpg

on my windows 10 computer

it’s not a problem with the api I’m using, because I tested it with a url address and it worked, but with the local address it didn’t work

I’m using n8n desktop

How can I do to map the file path?

[Gabriele_Bracciali]

Hi, I am not sure, but try to write the path in this format:

C:\\Users\\Presley\\Pictures\\foto_jyselly.jpg

or

C:/Users/Presley/Pictures/foto_jyselly.jpg

let me know if it worked!

[Presley_Nunes_de_Men]

did not work

it seems to me that n8n does not find the path, maybe it has to map the absolute path, but I do not know how

[Presley_Nunes_de_Men]

another option would also be

but it gives the following error:

[Gabriele_Bracciali]

okay, actually I don’t know how to test well cause I don’t have Windows.

I suggest you to check if the file is the correct position
and If yes, try to read again the documentation maybe there is something missing.
Sorry!

[Jon]

Hi There,

It looks like you are just sending a path not the actual contents of a file, Does the API you are using have access to your local machine to be able to read the file or is it expecting you to actually send the file?

[Presley_Nunes_de_Men]

the api i am using expects me to actually upload the file

in the second example i use the multipart/form-data

but in the first example i used the application/json

normally for url it works fine but for local file not

[Jon]

Hey @Presley_Nunes_de_Men,

But you are still just sending the path not the file contents, I suspect when you use a URL the system you are working with is calling that URL to download it. When you are sending a filepath it looks like it is trying to read the local path on the server which is interesting and could potentially be a security issue if it is just blindly trying to read something… anyway…

Depending on what the API actually requires before the HTTP Request node add a read binary files node and put in the path to get the file data then send that to the service instead.

[Presley_Nunes_de_Men]

I achieved!!

I did as instructed, but I converted it to json and then to base64 and it worked.

Thank you for your help