Unable to get the downloaded file content from previous node upload to google cloud bucket

[Micky_Wong]

Describe the problem/error/question

Greetings, my workflow’s goal is to automatically upload a Txt file from a specific folder in my google drive to a google cloud bucket. My problem is that I can view the content of the downloaded file from google drive in the previous node. However, when I want to upload the content of this text file, I do not know what to do. I have tried the google cloud storage node with create, update, and use /not use the binary property. When I opted not to use the Binary Property, I saw an option called “File Content”. How to insert my file content into there? Please help—many thanks for considering my request.

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[MutedJam]

Hi @Micky_Wong, welcome to the community

Based on your description I am not 100% sure about the actual data you currently have. When passing on data to your Google Cloud Storage node, are you passing on the actual content of a file or a binary object for the file itself?

Assuming it’s the former you can reference the content in n8n using an expression such as {{ $json.yourFieldName }}:

In a workflow this would look like so (the HTTP Request node in my example simply fetches some dummy text):

The file appears in the Google Cloud Storage dashboard as expected:

Hope this helps

Let me know if you have any questions on this!

[Micky_Wong]

thanks@MutedJam I will take a good look at it