Output Randomiser Node

Feature Requests
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There are times in a flow when I just want the next node to choose something at random. Other tools like NodeRed have this and its very useful.

I created a code node to achieve this, but would be nicer and more stable to have a simple “Random” node.

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const items = [];
const myList = $input.all();
const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * myList.length);
const randomItem = myList[randomIndex];
return [{ json: randomItem }];
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Hey @RedPacketSec,

What sort of random data would you be interested in? We have a “debug helper” node that was released as a community node that can generate some random data.

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Let us know what is missing and we can always look at popping in some changes to make it more useful.

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Thanks for that, but i need to choose an item from a list at random from the previous node.

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Ah ok that is a bit different, We could add it as an option to return a random input item though :thinking:

What does the output randomiser look like in other tools maybe we can get some inspiration.

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NodeRed

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@RedPacketSec you can do pretty much the same in n8n like in node red:

If you only want less outputs, just change the expression accordingly:

1 output: {{ Math.floor(Math.random() * 1)  }}
2 output: {{ Math.floor(Math.random() * 2)  }}
3 output: {{ Math.floor(Math.random() * 3)  }}
4 output: {{ Math.floor(Math.random() * 4)  }}

EDIT: removed set node as you can just put this expression directly into the switch node

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You can choose a random item using the ‘item lists’ node: first sort the items randomly then limit to only return one: