Hello, thank you for watching my video! In the new version of n8n "Move Binary Data" node has been replaced with "Convert to File". I prepared a new workflow file, so you can easily run this automation in new version of n8n: gist.github.com/workfloows/c35fe2380ad56bcd9d4dcf6cb6dff833
Thanks for the workflow. It worked well with just one edit. I will be looking through some of your other videos. I hope you will also have the workflow json file available there too.
This was a great walkthrough @workfloows thanks for sharing. I'm hoping this might replace a complex set of azure functions, log files, orchestration code and data factory... of course, it'll require more than you've demonstrated, but I do like the idea of using n8n and gotenberg to manage the process and pdf generation. Sweet!
If you're using compose you don't need to issue the compose down command, just simply run pull and up or if you want to recreate all containers you can pass the --force-recreate flag.
Nice video buddy keep making n8n content ,i recently got to know about this tool it is very powerful,capable but to use it for many is by no mean easy so your guides can really help for n8n there are so many service integration available from some most used services if u can make videos on it will be best :-)
Thanks a lot for your comment! I will definitely keep creating those tutorials and I will do my best to involve some cool services and APIs in future workflows. I’m glad my videos bring you value and I’m more than happy to have you as my viewer. Cheers!
@@workfloows going through your videos really awesome work buddy, this tool is open source so no ads and promotion and not too easy to use so not tooo popular BUT this tool can be soo much powerful if person like you guide us by making great videos ,cant find much videos or content till date for n8n and these videos will be greatest contribution from your side for open source automation soo keep learning and making videos at your pace if possible 😁I will also try to learn different things sooo much service integration soo many combos can be made really very capable software
Hey Oskar, was looking for how to generate PDF for invoice for customer on YT. Got your video as the first result. Seems like you're always the solution for all my problems lol...
@@workfloowsI watched all your videos, they're great. Please don't stop. I've redone this workflow, however used static HTML in code node to create an HTML for the invoice. I use an openblocks front-end to input invoice details in a form and have n8n receive it via a webhook. Never knew the pain to work with on-the-fly binary files until today 😂
Hi Oskar, great tutorial. How would you include pagenumbers in the resulting PDF? I can't manage to upload the required footer.html and header.html into gotenberg, I end up with two files.
Hey, thanks for your comment! If the document is long, it should split automatically between the pages. This should happen unless the Gotenberg properties are overwritten. You can also set header/footer to display number of pages in the doc. Have a look at Gotenberg documentation for more details: gotenberg.dev/docs/routes#page-properties-chromium
Thank you for video. Couple of days ago i have installed n8n, but i'm confused that for so simple action like PDF i can't do "from the box" your solution is good, but i think in future they must add simple action to "create PDF"
Exactly, I also hope that solutions like Gotenberg are only temporary and soon we will be able to create PDF files in n8n itself. Thank you for your comment, I really appreciate it!
For the file name you can set the header in the request: Name: Gotenberg-Output-Filename Value: my_file Unfortunately the new convert to html spills out formatted html + same content in text. I've avoided it converting to text, but is a bug
Hey, thank you for your comment. Yes - n8n node "Convert to HTML" has been updated some time ago and flow changed a bit. You can now select "Move Base64 String to File" in order to return correct HTML for Gotenberg conversion. Below please find example workflow with this node implemented. gist.github.com/workfloows/c35fe2380ad56bcd9d4dcf6cb6dff833
Hey! Thanks for your comment and apologize for my late feedback. In new version of n8n "Move Binary Data" node has been replaced with "Convert to File". I prepared a workflow file for you, so you can easily run this automation in new version of n8n: gist.github.com/workfloows/c35fe2380ad56bcd9d4dcf6cb6dff833
Hey, thanks for your comment. Yes - in new version of n8n "Move Binary Data" node has been replaced with "Convert to File". I prepared a workflow file for you, so you can easily run this automation in new version of n8n: gist.github.com/workfloows/c35fe2380ad56bcd9d4dcf6cb6dff833
Hello, thank you for your comment. With Gotenberg, you can generate PDFs both from HTML files or URLs - simply use the specific route when doing HTTP call (convert/url or convert/html). You can find more details about it in Gotenberg docs: gotenberg.dev/docs/routes
I'm looking to generate a report and append a variable number of images to each report. save it as a pdf and maybe compress it. can you give me a pointer how you would try to achieve this task?
Hello, thanks for your comment! If you want achieve it using n8n and Gotenebrg, the best way would be to first set HTML element for each image (e.g. using “set” node). Next, in further steps of workflow, combine all elements together and put into HTML layout. Finally, generate PDF using Gotenberg. Alternatively, if you want to avoid using Gotenberg, you can create a PDF template in external tool (e.g. APITemplate or PDFMonkey) and make a simple HTTP request from n8n.
hello I had an idea it was to make a robot that could remove the background from my images and put a white background instead a robot that could scan all the images on my site and remove all the backgrounds and change them to white backgrounds I thought it would be possible with the canva kind of api but first I wanted to know if it is possible to do more advanced stuff with the figma API for my background idea Can you tell me if this is feasible?
Hey, thanks for your comment. Automation of this process should be feasible - you can use one of AI background removers to erase the background and further in the process replace it with the specific colour/image. Overall this should be doable.
@@workfloows Yes I can do this with canva and other tools but I would like to do it automatically and I had some ideas but I don't know if these ideas are good and feasible, could I send you an email so you can tell me what you think?
Hi, thank you for your comment! As far as I know, there are many ways to automate printing process - it depends strictly on your printer and its software. If you have a printer that enables you to trigger printing e.g. via email messages, you can easily do it with „send email” node in n8n. I’d recommend to go through docs of your printer and see what communication options it provides (email, API, cloud printing etc.) and then use this method to build the workflow.
@@workfloows Thanks bro, could you release this N8N flow for me, give me a study here, I'm still learning how to use it, that would be very useful for me
Hello, thank you for your comment. It should be possible, but you’d need to modify the flow and create a separate path for CSS stylesheet. It’s also necessary to mention the file in core HTML file and modify POST request, to send both HTML and CSS file for conversion. Please have a look on Gotenberg docs for more details: gotenberg.dev/docs/6.x/html
@@workfloows Thanks for your answer, I tested it with other html, but why is seem like pdf converted using mobile view or not landscape like when it open in the browser
Hello, thank you for watching my video!
In the new version of n8n "Move Binary Data" node has been replaced with "Convert to File". I prepared a new workflow file, so you can easily run this automation in new version of n8n: gist.github.com/workfloows/c35fe2380ad56bcd9d4dcf6cb6dff833
Thanks for the workflow. It worked well with just one edit. I will be looking through some of your other videos. I hope you will also have the workflow json file available there too.
This was a great walkthrough @workfloows thanks for sharing.
I'm hoping this might replace a complex set of azure functions, log files, orchestration code and data factory... of course, it'll require more than you've demonstrated, but I do like the idea of using n8n and gotenberg to manage the process and pdf generation. Sweet!
Thank you very much!
If you're using compose you don't need to issue the compose down command, just simply run pull and up or if you want to recreate all containers you can pass the --force-recreate flag.
Hey, thanks for your comment and sorry for my delayed response. This is a a valuable tip, thank you for sharing!
Nice video buddy keep making n8n content ,i recently got to know about this tool it is very powerful,capable but to use it for many is by no mean easy so your guides can really help for n8n there are so many service integration available from some most used services if u can make videos on it will be best :-)
Thanks a lot for your comment! I will definitely keep creating those tutorials and I will do my best to involve some cool services and APIs in future workflows. I’m glad my videos bring you value and I’m more than happy to have you as my viewer. Cheers!
@@workfloows going through your videos really awesome work buddy, this tool is open source so no ads and promotion and not too easy to use so not tooo popular BUT this tool can be soo much powerful if person like you guide us by making great videos ,cant find much videos or content till date for n8n and these videos will be greatest contribution from your side for open source automation soo keep learning and making videos at your pace if possible 😁I will also try to learn different things sooo much service integration soo many combos can be made really very capable software
Hey Oskar, was looking for how to generate PDF for invoice for customer on YT. Got your video as the first result. Seems like you're always the solution for all my problems lol...
Hey! Glad to hear that and I’m really happy that you find my videos helpful 😄
Thank you very much for watching and for your kind comment!
@@workfloowsI watched all your videos, they're great. Please don't stop.
I've redone this workflow, however used static HTML in code node to create an HTML for the invoice. I use an openblocks front-end to input invoice details in a form and have n8n receive it via a webhook.
Never knew the pain to work with on-the-fly binary files until today 😂
Thanks. Helped me a lot.
You’re very welcome and thank you for your comment!
Hi Oskar, great tutorial. How would you include pagenumbers in the resulting PDF? I can't manage to upload the required footer.html and header.html into gotenberg, I end up with two files.
awesome thanks
and what if the invoice is in multiple pages ?
Hey, thanks for your comment!
If the document is long, it should split automatically between the pages. This should happen unless the Gotenberg properties are overwritten. You can also set header/footer to display number of pages in the doc.
Have a look at Gotenberg documentation for more details: gotenberg.dev/docs/routes#page-properties-chromium
Thank you for video. Couple of days ago i have installed n8n, but i'm confused that for so simple action like PDF i can't do "from the box" your solution is good, but i think in future they must add simple action to "create PDF"
Exactly, I also hope that solutions like Gotenberg are only temporary and soon we will be able to create PDF files in n8n itself. Thank you for your comment, I really appreciate it!
For the file name you can set the header in the request: Name: Gotenberg-Output-Filename Value: my_file
Unfortunately the new convert to html spills out formatted html + same content in text. I've avoided it converting to text, but is a bug
Hey, thank you for your comment.
Yes - n8n node "Convert to HTML" has been updated some time ago and flow changed a bit. You can now select "Move Base64 String to File" in order to return correct HTML for Gotenberg conversion. Below please find example workflow with this node implemented.
gist.github.com/workfloows/c35fe2380ad56bcd9d4dcf6cb6dff833
Hey Oskar! The new n8n has no convert to binary as you describe here. Any clue how to solve it?
Hey! Thanks for your comment and apologize for my late feedback.
In new version of n8n "Move Binary Data" node has been replaced with "Convert to File". I prepared a workflow file for you, so you can easily run this automation in new version of n8n: gist.github.com/workfloows/c35fe2380ad56bcd9d4dcf6cb6dff833
'Move Binary Data' node does not exist, I expect it is the 'Convert to File' node
Hey, thanks for your comment. Yes - in new version of n8n "Move Binary Data" node has been replaced with "Convert to File". I prepared a workflow file for you, so you can easily run this automation in new version of n8n: gist.github.com/workfloows/c35fe2380ad56bcd9d4dcf6cb6dff833
can I do this transformation with an HTML code too or just with a url?
Hello, thank you for your comment.
With Gotenberg, you can generate PDFs both from HTML files or URLs - simply use the specific route when doing HTTP call (convert/url or convert/html). You can find more details about it in Gotenberg docs: gotenberg.dev/docs/routes
I'm looking to generate a report and append a variable number of images to each report.
save it as a pdf and maybe compress it.
can you give me a pointer how you would try to achieve this task?
Hello, thanks for your comment!
If you want achieve it using n8n and Gotenebrg, the best way would be to first set HTML element for each image (e.g. using “set” node). Next, in further steps of workflow, combine all elements together and put into HTML layout. Finally, generate PDF using Gotenberg.
Alternatively, if you want to avoid using Gotenberg, you can create a PDF template in external tool (e.g. APITemplate or PDFMonkey) and make a simple HTTP request from n8n.
hello I had an idea it was to make a robot that could remove the background from my images and put a white background instead
a robot that could scan all the images on my site and remove all the backgrounds and change them to white backgrounds
I thought it would be possible with the canva kind of api
but first I wanted to know if it is possible to do more advanced stuff with the figma API for my background idea
Can you tell me if this is feasible?
Hey, thanks for your comment.
Automation of this process should be feasible - you can use one of AI background removers to erase the background and further in the process replace it with the specific colour/image. Overall this should be doable.
@@workfloows Yes I can do this with canva and other tools but I would like to do it automatically and I had some ideas but I don't know if these ideas are good and feasible, could I send you an email so you can tell me what you think?
@@workfloows hello, do you know api connector?
do you use AI for coding?
can I find "templates" ?
@@workfloows hello
And to print automatically? type of delivery app that automatically prints as soon as an order arrives, Thank you
Hi, thank you for your comment!
As far as I know, there are many ways to automate printing process - it depends strictly on your printer and its software. If you have a printer that enables you to trigger printing e.g. via email messages, you can easily do it with „send email” node in n8n. I’d recommend to go through docs of your printer and see what communication options it provides (email, API, cloud printing etc.) and then use this method to build the workflow.
@@workfloows Thanks bro, could you release this N8N flow for me, give me a study here, I'm still learning how to use it, that would be very useful for me
can we also use css file with this workflow?
Hello, thank you for your comment.
It should be possible, but you’d need to modify the flow and create a separate path for CSS stylesheet. It’s also necessary to mention the file in core HTML file and modify POST request, to send both HTML and CSS file for conversion.
Please have a look on Gotenberg docs for more details: gotenberg.dev/docs/6.x/html
@@workfloows Thanks for your answer, I tested it with other html, but why is seem like pdf converted using mobile view or not landscape like when it open in the browser