Upload a local image with Google Drive

[antoinesnowleader]

Hello everyone, I discovered this project for an alternative to IFTTT. It’s amazing how much can be done, great job.

My current project is to retrieve backup notification emails from a gmail box, then send the notifications via webhook to a Google Chat room.

I currently proceed as follows:

• Cron job
• Check a directory of a GMAIL mailbox.
• Transformation of body text (HTML) into binary data.
• Writing a binary file locally on the machine. (/ Files)
• Execution of a utility via Execute Command to transform HTML into PNG (wkhtmltoimage, added to docker). (PNG stored in / files)
• Send the PNG file to a Google Drive account.
• Creation of a sharing URL for this PNG file.
• Sends webhook request

I’m currently having a problem sending my file to my Google Drive storage. I was wondering if I could send a local file, or if I had to transform this image into binary data and then send it back to Google Drive.

Is it possible to enlighten me on this?

[tanay]

Hi @antoinesnowleader, welcome to the community. We are very glad that you found us

You can use the Read Binary File (or Read Binary Files) node to read a local file and then connect it to the Google Drive node to upload it. The workflow could look something like this:

Here’s the workflow:

In the workflow above, you’d have to adjust a few things like the File Path in the Read Binary Node and the File Name in the Google Drive node. Hope that helps!

[antoinesnowleader]

Hi !
Thanks for your quick answer, its working well

The behaviour on Google Drive is just a little werd

I’ll see if that’s a problem for me later.

[tanay]

Hey @antoinesnowleader, that shouldn’t happen. This is how it looked for me.

The image that you uploaded, was it a PNG file locally? Does that happen when you upload other image formats as well?

[antoinesnowleader]

Forget it, during my first test, I was reading the html file, not the png file …
It works perfectly

[tanay]

Glad to hear that! Have fun!