Unable to Install Community Nodes or Use Header Auth Credential

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to create a workflow to connect to the Apify API. I’m running into an issue where I seem to be blocked by my n8n instance’s configuration.

Here’s what I’ve found:

  1. Community Nodes are unavailable: When I open the nodes panel, the “Community Nodes” tab or installation option does not appear. This prevents me from installing the official n8n-nodes-apify package.

  2. Header Auth Credential is missing: As a workaround, I tried using the standard HTTP Request node. However, when I try to select an authentication method, the generic Header Auth credential type is not listed as an option.

It seems my n8n administrator has disabled both of these features.

My goal is simply to pass my Apify API Token (as a Bearer Token in an Authorization header) to connect to the service. Could you please advise on the best way forward?

Is my only option to ask the administrator to either: a) Install the n8n-nodes-apify package for me? b) Enable the Header Auth credential type so I can use the HTTP Request node?

Thanks for your help!

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Hi there, yeah, from what i know, if the admins disable that then you need to ask them for it

there are certain things that a member cannot do and admins can, one of it is adding community node

thank you!