import { BINARY_ENCODING, IExecuteSingleFunctions, } from 'n8n-core'; import { IDataObject, INodeTypeDescription, INodeExecutionData, INodeType, } from 'n8n-workflow'; import { writeFile as fsWriteFile, } from 'fs'; import { promisify } from "util"; const fsWriteFileAsync = promisify(fsWriteFile); export class WriteBinaryFile implements INodeType { description: INodeTypeDescription = { displayName: 'Write Binary File', name: 'writeBinaryFile', icon: 'fa:file-export', group: ['output'], version: 1, description: 'Writes a binary file to disk', defaults: { name: 'Write Binary File', color: '#CC2233', }, inputs: ['main'], outputs: ['main'], properties: [ { displayName: 'File Name', name: 'fileName', type: 'string', default: '', required: true, placeholder: '/data/example.jpg', description: 'Path to which the file should be written.', }, { displayName: 'Property Name', name: 'dataPropertyName', type: 'string', default: 'data', required: true, description: 'Name of the binary property which contains
the data for the file to be written.', }, ] }; async executeSingle(this: IExecuteSingleFunctions): Promise { const item = this.getInputData(); const dataPropertyName = this.getNodeParameter('dataPropertyName') as string; const fileName = this.getNodeParameter('fileName') as string; if (item.binary === undefined) { return item; } if (item.binary[dataPropertyName] === undefined) { return item; } // Write the file to disk await fsWriteFileAsync(fileName, Buffer.from(item.binary[dataPropertyName].data, BINARY_ENCODING), 'binary'); const newItem: INodeExecutionData = { json: {}, }; Object.assign(newItem.json, item.json); if (item.binary !== undefined) { // Create a shallow copy of the binary data so that the old // data references which do not get changed still stay behind // but the incoming data does not get changed. newItem.binary = {}; Object.assign(newItem.binary, item.binary); } // Add the file name to data (newItem.json as IDataObject).fileName = fileName; return newItem; } }