Manually Read Local JPG Files

Manually reads all JPG image files from a specific server directory for further processing.

📄 Description & Use Case

This is a fundamental workflow designed to read binary files from a local directory on the server where n8n is running. It is manually triggered, making it ideal for on-demand file processing tasks.

🔄 How It Works:

1. Manual Trigger

   • The workflow is initiated when you click the 'Execute Workflow' button. The On clicking 'execute' node starts the process.

2. Read Files

   • The Read Binary Files node is activated. It is configured to look inside the /data/lol/ directory and read every file that ends with the .jpg extension.
   • The output of this node is a series of items, each containing the binary data of one JPG file, which can then be passed to other nodes for processing.

✅ Real-World Use Cases:

• Batch Image Processing: Use this as the first step to resize, compress, or add watermarks to a folder of images before uploading them.
• File Ingestion: Read local files (like images, PDFs, or documents) to ingest them into a digital asset management (DAM) system, a CMS, or cloud storage like S3 or Google Drive.
• Data Migration: A simple way to grab a batch of files from a server's file system to move them into another application or service.
• Workflow Testing: Quickly load local file data into a workflow to test subsequent nodes (e.g., an AI vision model or a file upload node) without setting up a complex trigger.