Request for Node Details and API Documentation in n8n

Hi n8n Support Team,

I hope you’re doing well.

We are currently working on creating workflows in n8n via REST APIs. As part of this, we need to dynamically retrieve the available node list and detailed information for each node — such as the required parameters, credential key names, and other configuration details.

Our goal is to collect these inputs from users dynamically, but we are having trouble finding any official documentation or endpoint that provides these node-specific details.

Could you please let us know:

  • If there’s an API or endpoint to fetch the full list of available nodes.
  • How we can programmatically get node-specific details (e.g., parameters, credential fields, descriptions).
  • If there’s any documentation or internal structure we can refer to for understanding how to collect these configurations from users.

I’ve explored your documentation and GitHub repository, but couldn’t find anything specific to this requirement.

Any guidance or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

instance information

Debug info

core

  • n8nVersion: 1.92.2
  • platform: docker (self-hosted)
  • nodeJsVersion: 20.19.0
  • database: sqlite
  • executionMode: regular
  • concurrency: -1
  • license: enterprise (production)
  • consumerId: 9c4127e9-94d0-457f-a716-3848f0ac12fe

storage

  • success: all
  • error: all
  • progress: false
  • manual: true
  • binaryMode: filesystem

pruning

  • enabled: true
  • maxAge: 336 hours
  • maxCount: 10000 executions

client

  • userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/136.0.0.0 safari/537.36
  • isTouchDevice: false

Generated at: 2025-05-16T12:03:10.121Z

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Hi @Johnson_F

Actually, there’s a huge JSON file that contains extensive data about the nodes, You can access it at the following URL:

https://<your-n8n-instance>/types/nodes.json

You might be able to extract the information you’re interested in from there.

this calls quite a few bit, N8n Support Collector by Samuel

but u probs wana run other commands too on the host

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