Summarize Google Drive Files with OpenAI

The workflow JSON

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{
  "meta": {
    "templateCredsSetupCompleted": true
  },
  "nodes": [
    {
      "id": "96d41f6a-3534-4286-a514-c39fa3100897",
      "name": "When clicking \"Execute Workflow\"",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger",
      "position": [
        -40,
        520
      ],
      "parameters": {},
      "typeVersion": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "8fc1ced3-3007-4a18-9619-b7c72589d784",
      "name": "OpenAI Chat Model",
      "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi",
      "position": [
        360,
        740
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "model": {
          "__rl": true,
          "mode": "list",
          "value": "gpt-4o-mini"
        },
        "options": {}
      },
      "credentials": {
        "openAiApi": {
          "name": "<your credential>"
        }
      },
      "typeVersion": 1.2
    },
    {
      "id": "e12e4360-50e6-421a-ba95-8474fb06448c",
      "name": "Default Data Loader",
      "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.documentDefaultDataLoader",
      "position": [
        540,
        740
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "options": {},
        "dataType": "binary"
      },
      "typeVersion": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "244ed66f-1dde-4a56-90ec-cb31644f3d5a",
      "name": "Token Splitter1",
      "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.textSplitterTokenSplitter",
      "position": [
        620,
        880
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "chunkSize": 3000
      },
      "typeVersion": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "7a2b2f4c-8153-4cac-9bb2-45c46f28f8a5",
      "name": "Google Drive",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleDrive",
      "position": [
        180,
        520
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "fileId": {
          "__rl": true,
          "mode": "url",
          "value": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Koq9q53nkk0F5Y8eZgaWJUVR03I4-MM/view"
        },
        "options": {},
        "operation": "download"
      },
      "credentials": {
        "googleDriveOAuth2Api": {
          "name": "<your credential>"
        }
      },
      "typeVersion": 3
    },
    {
      "id": "e803a016-a9e7-4af2-bca2-05f9243196b2",
      "name": "Summarization Chain",
      "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainSummarization",
      "position": [
        400,
        520
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "options": {},
        "operationMode": "documentLoader"
      },
      "typeVersion": 2
    }
  ],
  "connections": {
    "Google Drive": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Summarization Chain",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Token Splitter1": {
      "ai_textSplitter": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Default Data Loader",
            "type": "ai_textSplitter",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "OpenAI Chat Model": {
      "ai_languageModel": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Summarization Chain",
            "type": "ai_languageModel",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Default Data Loader": {
      "ai_document": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Summarization Chain",
            "type": "ai_document",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "When clicking \"Execute Workflow\"": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Google Drive",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  }
}

Credentials you'll need

Each integration node will prompt for credentials when you import. We strip credential IDs before publishing — you'll add your own.

• googleDriveOAuth2Api
• openAiApi

About this workflow

This workflow includes advanced features like text summarization and tokenization, it's ideal for automating document processing tasks that require parsing and summarizing text data from Google Drive.

Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/1962/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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