Automatically optimise images added to a Google drive folder — n8n Workflow

Low complexity Trigger5 nodes🏷️ File Management👁 1,779 viewsby Jonathan

Overview

How it works This workflow watches a selected Google Drive folder for any images added to it. It then takes that image, sends it the the tinypng.com service which optimises and reduces its size (where possible) Tinypng then returns the updated image which is then automatically saved in your chose Google Drive folder

Setting things up It's pretty simple to configure and should only take around 5-10mins. You only need to set up credentials for Google Drive and Tinypng.com For Tinypng.com you can

Nodes used

HTTP RequestGoogle Drive

Workflow Preview

Automatically optimise images uploaded to Goo
Each time an image is added to a google drive folder, t
1. Pre-setup: Google Drive credentials
a. Firstly you'll need to setup Google Drive credential
2. Choose the Google Drive folder n8n is goin
a. Go to Google Drive and create the folder you want n8
b. Then you need to select that fold
3. Create an API key for tinypng.com
a. Visit tinypng.com and request an API key
b. Update the "Authorisation" parameter value with your
4. Choose your Google Drive folder to save yo
a. Finally, create and select the folder that you want
b. OPTIONAL: Yo
C
Check GDrive for new ima…
Download image
Optimise - Send image to…
Get optimised image from…
Google Drive
5 nodes4 edges

How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 5 nodes, connecting googledrive, googledrivetrigger, httprequest.

  3. 3

    Output

    The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (5)

HT

HTTP Request

httpRequest

#1
GO

Google Drive

googleDrive

#2

How to Import This Workflow

  1. 1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
  2. 2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
  3. 3Select the downloaded automatically-optimise-images-added-to-a-google-drive-folder file and click Import.
  4. 4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
  5. 5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Automatically optimise images added to a Google drive folder", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

googledrivegoogledrivetriggerhttprequest

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Nodes5
Complexitylow
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Views1,779

Created by

Jonathan

Jonathan

@jcn8n

Tags

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