n8n/packages/nodes-base/nodes/WriteBinaryFile.node.ts

import {
	BINARY_ENCODING,
	IExecuteFunctions,
	IExecuteSingleFunctions
} 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<br />the data for the file to be written.',
			},
		],
	};


	async execute(this: IExecuteFunctions): Promise<INodeExecutionData[][]> {

		const items = this.getInputData();

		const returnData: INodeExecutionData[] = [];
		const length = items.length as unknown as number;
		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!`);
				}

				// Write the file to disk
				await fsWriteFile(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;

				returnData.push(newItem);

			} catch (error) {
				if (this.continueOnFail()) {
					returnData.push({json:{ error: error.message }});
					continue;
				}
				throw error;
			}
		}
		return this.prepareOutputData(returnData);
	}

}