import { IExecuteFunctions, } from 'n8n-core'; import { IDataObject, INodeExecutionData, INodeType, INodeTypeDescription, NodeOperationError, } from 'n8n-workflow'; import { writeFile as fsWriteFile, } from 'fs/promises'; 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 execute(this: IExecuteFunctions): Promise { const items = this.getInputData(); const returnData: INodeExecutionData[] = []; const length = items.length; let item: INodeExecutionData; for (let itemIndex = 0; itemIndex < length; itemIndex++) { try { const dataPropertyName = this.getNodeParameter('dataPropertyName', itemIndex) as string; const fileName = this.getNodeParameter('fileName', itemIndex) as string; item = items[itemIndex]; if (item.binary === undefined) { throw new NodeOperationError(this.getNode(), 'No binary data set. So file can not be written!'); } if (item.binary[dataPropertyName] === undefined) { throw new NodeOperationError(this.getNode(), `The binary property "${dataPropertyName}" does not exist. So no file can be written!`); } const newItem: INodeExecutionData = { json: {}, }; Object.assign(newItem.json, item.json); const binaryDataBuffer = await this.helpers.getBinaryDataBuffer(itemIndex, dataPropertyName); // Write the file to disk await fsWriteFile(fileName, binaryDataBuffer, 'binary'); 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; returnData.push(newItem); } catch (error) { if (this.continueOnFail()) { returnData.push({ json: { error: error.message } }); continue; } throw error; } } return this.prepareOutputData(returnData); } }