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The Read Binary File integrations are replaced by the Read/Write Files from Disk integrations
The Read/Write Files from Disk node replaces the Read Binary File node from version 1.21.0 onwards. Check out the Read/Write Files from Disk node!
Popular ways to use Read Binary File integration
Perform speech-to-text on recorded audio clips using Wit.ai
This workflow performs speech-to-text on recorded audio clips using Wit.ai.
To get started, replace your Wit.ai Server Access Token in the Authorization header.
amudhan
+3
Monitor a file for changes and send an alert
This flow monitors a file for changes of its content. If changed, an alert is sent out and you receive it as push, SMS or voice call on SIGNL4.
User cases:
Log-file monitoring
Monitoring of production data
Integration with third-party systems via file interface
Etc.
Sample file "alert-data.json":
{
"Body": "Alert in building A2.",
"Done": false,
"eventId": "2518088743722201372_4ee5617b-2731-4d38-8e16-e4148b8fb8a0"
}
Body: The alert text to be sent.
Done: If false this is a new alert. If true this indicated the alert has been closed.
eventId: Last SIGNL4 event ID written by SIGNL4.
This flow can be easily adapted for database monitoring as well.
Ron
Insert Excel data to Postgres
Read XLS from file
Convert it to JSON
Insert it in Postgres
Jan Oberhauser
Read a spreadsheet file
Companion workflow for Spreadsheet File node docs
amudhan
Read a file from disk
Companion workflow for Read Binary File node docs
amudhan
+8
Scrape and store data from multiple website pages
This workflow allows extracting data from multiple pages website.
The workflow:
1) Starts in a country list at https://www.theswiftcodes.com/browse-by-country/.
2) Loads every country page (https://www.theswiftcodes.com/albania/)
3) Paginates every page in the country page.
4) Extracts data from the country page.
5) Saves data to MongoDB.
6) Paginates through all pages in all countries.
It uses getWorkflowStaticData('global') method to recover the next page (saved from the previous page), and it goes ahead with all the pages.
There is a first section where the countries list is recovered and extracted.
Later, I try to read if a local cache page is available and I recover the cached page from the disk.
Finally, I save data to MongoDB, and we paginate all the pages in the country and for all the countries.
I have applied a cache system to save a visited page to n8n local disk. If I relaunch workflow, we check if a cache file exists to discard non-required requests to the webpage.
If the data present in the website changes, you can apply a Cron node to check the website once per week.
Finally, before inserting data in MongoDB, the best way to avoid duplicates is to check that swift_code (the primary value of the collection) doesn't exist.
I recommend using a proxy for all requests to avoid IP blocks. A good solution for proxy plus IP rotation is scrapoxy.io.
This workflow is perfect for small data requirements. If you need to scrape dynamic data, you can use a Headless browser or any other service.
If you want to scrape huge lists of URIs, I recommend using Scrapy + Scrapoxy.
Miquel Colomer
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Cris
Last week I automated much of the back office work for a small design studio in less than 8hrs and I am still mind-blown about it.
n8n is a game-changer and should be known by all SMBs and even enterprise companies.
