# \#compression **URL:** https://community.n8n.io/tag/compression/201.md [Latest](https://community.n8n.io/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.n8n.io/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.n8n.io/tags.md) --- ## [Business report to video in n8n: your monthly numbers, explained by Claude in 2 minutes (free n8n workflow template)](https://community.n8n.io/t/business-report-to-video-in-n8n-your-monthly-numbers-explained-by-claude-in-2-minutes-free-n8n-workflow-template/325292)
**Author:** [@Shotstack](https://community.n8n.io/u/Shotstack)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/business-report-to-video-in-n8n-your-monthly-numbers-explained-by-claude-in-2-minutes-free-n8n-workflow-template/325292 "2026-10-29T13:21:29Z")
Hey n8n community, if you send your team, your investors or your clients a review deck every month, here’s a free n8n workflow template for business review videos: your report in, a narrated 2 to 4 minute summary video o… --- ## [Decrypting PDF and ZIP](https://community.n8n.io/t/decrypting-pdf-and-zip/19287)
**Author:** [@mokkin](https://community.n8n.io/u/mokkin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/decrypting-pdf-and-zip/19287 "2026-04-17T13:21:55Z")
I’m fetching an email including a PDF and a ZIP file (that contains a CSV at the end). Both files are encrypted with the same password. I’d like to read the PDF and the zipped CSV, but I could’nt find an option in the cr… --- ## [Help with Decompress for a zip file](https://community.n8n.io/t/help-with-decompress-for-a-zip-file/181012)
**Author:** [@diegocatlad](https://community.n8n.io/u/diegocatlad)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/help-with-decompress-for-a-zip-file/181012 "2025-09-04T17:38:18Z")
Hi, I’m new atn8n, I’m giving it a try to automate a big process. I have ingested an email with an attachment, and after validating it’s the one I need, I want to decompress it. I read some posts and it should be farely… --- ## [De Compressing Zip File (Not Binary File)](https://community.n8n.io/t/de-compressing-zip-file-not-binary-file/79737)
**Author:** [@Robin\_Suthar](https://community.n8n.io/u/Robin_Suthar)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/de-compressing-zip-file-not-binary-file/79737 "2025-05-16T00:20:32Z")
Hi, I’m new this n8n, and I’m having some challenges de-compressing a zip file. I have a zip file from from google drive and with extension .zip. Now This zip file contains few pdf inside it, I want to extract those pdf… --- ## [File is truncated after decompression](https://community.n8n.io/t/file-is-truncated-after-decompression/111977)
**Author:** [@Igor\_Teresco](https://community.n8n.io/u/Igor_Teresco)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2025, 9:08am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/file-is-truncated-after-decompression/111977 "2025-05-14T09:08:48Z")
Describe the problem/error/question After downloading 2 .gz files I’m passing those to a Decompression node. And smaller file is always processed correctly, but larger one is truncated for some reason. What is the er… --- ## [Error Downloading and Decompressing ZIP file](https://community.n8n.io/t/error-downloading-and-decompressing-zip-file/77217)
**Author:** [@ag\_ai](https://community.n8n.io/u/ag_ai)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/error-downloading-and-decompressing-zip-file/77217 "2025-02-12T19:38:00Z")
Hi, I’m having an issue downloading a large zip file and decompressing it. I’m able to receive data, though not certain it is being downloaded. I tried to save it with a node, but that didn’t seem to work. If I pass … --- ## [Uncompress large zip \> 1GB](https://community.n8n.io/t/uncompress-large-zip-1gb/36081)
**Author:** [@Simone\_Di\_Cola](https://community.n8n.io/u/Simone_Di_Cola)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/uncompress-large-zip-1gb/36081 "2024-02-01T12:57:01Z")
Describe the problem/error/question I am unable to decompress a large zip file (1.6 GB). I am running n8n locally on node and it is stuck for 20 minutes eating up 32GB of RAM and almost all the CPU (got a mac studio max)… --- ## [Uploading zip file after compression node](https://community.n8n.io/t/uploading-zip-file-after-compression-node/35246)
**Author:** [@joseph\_appsmith](https://community.n8n.io/u/joseph_appsmith)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/uploading-zip-file-after-compression-node/35246 "2024-01-17T17:30:08Z")
Does anyone know how to upload a zip file from the Compression node, to an API using multi-part form data? Everything in this workflow works up to compressing the file, but it fails when uploading to Baserow. It read… --- ## [Reading Decompressed Files on n8n Cloud](https://community.n8n.io/t/reading-decompressed-files-on-n8n-cloud/33120)
**Author:** [@dn\_nroth](https://community.n8n.io/u/dn_nroth)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/reading-decompressed-files-on-n8n-cloud/33120 "2023-11-21T14:55:45Z")
Describe the problem/error/question I’m trying to take a sitemap\_index.xml file, download each of the gzipped references in that file, decompress them, then turn them into tabular data for uploading to a spreadsheet or s… --- ## [Issue with unzipping a ZIP file in an n8n workflow](https://community.n8n.io/t/issue-with-unzipping-a-zip-file-in-an-n8n-workflow/25577)
**Author:** [@momo2001tn](https://community.n8n.io/u/momo2001tn)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/issue-with-unzipping-a-zip-file-in-an-n8n-workflow/25577 "2023-05-02T10:17:28Z")
Describe the problem/error/question I am facing an issue with unzipping a ZIP file in an n8n workflow. I use an IMAP Trigger node to fetch my emails and successfully retrieve a ZIP file in binary format. However, when I … --- ## [How can I get the compression node to respect the directory parameter when compressing?](https://community.n8n.io/t/how-can-i-get-the-compression-node-to-respect-the-directory-parameter-when-compressing/25284)
**Author:** [@Frankie](https://community.n8n.io/u/Frankie)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2023, 8:04am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/how-can-i-get-the-compression-node-to-respect-the-directory-parameter-when-compressing/25284 "2023-04-20T08:04:55Z")
In my workflow, I am attempting to use n8n to download a zipball from a github repo of mine and repackage it (adding files and such) to be hosted on a private server for downloading. So far, I’ve had everything working, … --- ## [How can I compress multiple binaries resulting from the execution into one?](https://community.n8n.io/t/how-can-i-compress-multiple-binaries-resulting-from-the-execution-into-one/23864)
**Author:** [@ybsoft](https://community.n8n.io/u/ybsoft)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/how-can-i-compress-multiple-binaries-resulting-from-the-execution-into-one/23864 "2023-03-08T09:44:00Z")
Describe the issue/error/question jonathanmcfarland I have a Http Request node that fetches results from multiple endpoints stored in a Google Sheet, The Http Request node is set to respond with a binary as the result … --- ## [Compression to .bz2](https://community.n8n.io/t/compression-to-bz2/17302)
**Author:** [@wallinex](https://community.n8n.io/u/wallinex)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/compression-to-bz2/17302 "2022-09-02T06:44:24Z")
Hi, I need to compress the json result into a .bz2 file. I could not find the .bz2 alternative in the Compression node. This is my test workflow: Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you fo…