Hello, new to n8n here,
im sending a file to my webhook over multipart/form-data
i can get the file with a download button in the UI but i can’t get the real binary data to use it in another node, exaple send the document via telegram
i read some articles and there is a toggle button with “Binary Data” to enable receiving but it’s not showing
this is my docker-compose.yml file:
```
version: “3.1”
services:
n8n:
image: n8nio/n8n:latest
restart: always
ports:
“5678:5678”
environment:
N8N_HOST=xxxxxx
N8N_PORT=5678
N8N_PROTOCOL=https
WEBHOOK_URL=xxxxxxx
N8N_PUSH_BACKEND=websocket # or sse if needed
N8N_DEFAULT_BINARY_DATA_MODE=filesystem
N8N_AVAILABLE_BINARY_DATA_MODES=filesystem
N8N_BINARY_DATA_STORAGE_PATH=/home/node/binaryData
PUID=1001
PGID=1001
volumes:
./n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n
./binaryData:/home/node/binaryData
```
so Whats wrong?
n8n version:
Version 1.111.1
jabbson
September 24, 2025, 3:44pm
4
Hey @mohammed_breky , welcome to the community.
Here is an example with webhook and telegram for you
Make sure to set the correct chat_id in the telegram node.
As for toggle - don’t believe everything chatgpt tells you.
Thanks for the reply, but what i meant by the toggle is this button like in the screenshot below “i don’t see the button”
also im coming from make.com background, while receiving the files in webhook i can get the data like this
some nodes require the “data” input but i can’t find it anywhere
this is the JSON bundle i receive
i need to extract that HTML into a plain HTML like in the file exactly to modify it more, but there is no possible way i can think of.
jabbson
September 25, 2025, 1:10pm
6
mohammed_breky:
“i don’t see the button”
You are referencing a post which is more than 3 years old
Which is the reason you are not seeing the toggle. The hook accepts the binary by default, no need to enable it.
the way it works in n8n is you reference the binary by the binary property name, which is here:
Whenever the field asks for an Input binary field, you need that text in yellow, just like I showed in my example above.
system
Closed
December 24, 2025, 1:11pm
7
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.