@bitovi/n8n-nodes-markitdown

This repo contains N8N node to work with Microsoft's Markitdown.

Installation

• Make sure to allow community nodes with N8N_COMMUNITY_PACKAGES_ENABLED=true
• Once logged in to your N8N web UI, go to /settings/community-nodes and type @bitovi/n8n-nodes-markitdown

File Types accepted

At present, MarkItDown supports:

PDF PowerPoint (reading in top-to-bottom, left-to-right order) Word Excel Images (EXIF metadata and OCR) Audio (EXIF metadata and speech transcription) HTML Text-based formats (CSV, JSON, XML) ZIP files (iterates over contents) Youtube URLs ... and more!

How to find the node?

You can search markitdown in the searchbar. It will look like this: markitdownnode

Have your own hosted version of n8n? Here is how to add out markitdown node to your Docker file

Here is the following code to pull in the markitdown dependency and then install the markitdown nod

# Install system dependencies
RUN apk add --no-cache \
    bash \
    git \
    curl \
    wget \
    build-base \
    openssl-dev \
    zlib-dev \
    bzip2-dev \
    readline-dev \
    sqlite-dev \
    ncurses-dev \
    xz \
    libxml2-dev \
    libffi-dev \
    python3 \
    python3-dev \
    py3-pip \
    nodejs \
    npm

# Download and install Python 3.10.12
WORKDIR /tmp
RUN wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.12/Python-3.10.12.tgz \
    && tar -xvf Python-3.10.12.tgz \
    && cd Python-3.10.12 \
    && ./configure --enable-optimizations \
    && make -j$(nproc) && make altinstall \
    && cd .. && rm -rf Python-3.10.12.tgz Python-3.10.12

RUN ln -sf /usr/local/bin/python3.10 /usr/bin/python3 && \
    ln -sf /usr/local/bin/python3.10 /usr/bin/python

# Install pip for Python 3.10
RUN curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py && \
    python3 get-pip.py && \
    rm get-pip.py

WORKDIR /

# Actual part needed
RUN git clone https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown.git && \
    cd markitdown && \
    pip install --use-pep517 packages/markitdown

WORKDIR /app

RUN git clone https://github.com/bitovi/n8n-nodes-markitdown

WORKDIR /app/markitdownnode

RUN npm i -g child_process fs-extra tmp-promise
RUN cp -R dist/nodes/ /home/node/.n8n/custom/

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License

MIT