@bitovi/n8n-nodes-markitdown

This repo contains an n8n community node that intregrates with Microsoft's Markitdown tool for converting various document formats into structured Markdown.

Installation

• A self-hosted n8n instance.
  • n8n Cloud does not support nodes with external dependencies
• Make sure you have Markitdown installed 2. Simply update your own Dockerfile with the delcarations below
  1. You may use our custom image
• 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

Option 1 (Reccomended)

# 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. Needed to compile Markitdown
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 /

# Install Markitdown on the image
RUN git clone https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown.git && \
    cd markitdown && \
    pip install --use-pep517 packages/markitdown

WORKDIR /app

# Install custom node to interact with Markitdown from n8n
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/

Option 2

# Use our custom image
FROM bitovi/n8n-nodes-markitdown:latest

# Optional, put your customization here
...

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

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License

MIT