Read binary file

[BenJ]

Hi everyone,

I would like to decompress a Zip file in my n8n workflow with the node “Compression”. It works if I put the node Compression just after my node which returns the ZIP file. But my workflow is built as the nodes are separeted by 2 nodes, so I would like to know how to acces a binary data when it is returned 3 nodes back.
Here is my error :

And here is my workflow :

[n8n]

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[Imperol]

Use the object in the IF node to check if it exists or not. Update to lates version if you ae not

[BenJ]

Hi @Imperol,

It doesn’t work, the node IF returns the JSON of the node “storeFile”, but I want to have the binary data from the node “loopOnPJ”.

Thanks

[MutedJam]

Hi @BenJ, you would need to use a Merge node (with Mode set to Combine and and Combination Mode set to Merge By Position) in this case to combine the output of two separate nodes (storeFile and loopOnPJ" in your case).