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{
"id": "",
"meta": {
"templateCredsSetupCompleted": true
},
"name": "Merge all PDFs from a Google Drive folder with generated title pages and watermark using Autype",
"tags": [],
"nodes": [
{
"id": "4e134e76-8b7d-485e-b68e-26742beae619",
"name": "Run Workflow",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger",
"position": [
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"parameters": {},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "8150627a-44f8-40fe-b367-c91cfee2fc6d",
"name": "List PDFs in Folder",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleDrive",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"filter": {
"folderId": {
"__rl": true,
"mode": "id",
"value": "YOUR_FOLDER_ID"
}
},
"options": {
"fields": [
"*"
]
},
"resource": "fileFolder",
"returnAll": true
},
"credentials": {
"googleDriveOAuth2Api": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 3
},
{
"id": "4e1a39a2-b607-43e2-a6db-c401a6021ba7",
"name": "Build Title Pages JSON",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"jsCode": "const files = $input.all().map(i => i.json);\n\nconst sections = files.map((file, index) => ({\n type: 'page',\n align: 'center',\n content: [\n {\n type: 'h1',\n text: file.name.replace(/\\.pdf$/i, ''),\n fontSize: 28,\n color: '#1a1a1a'\n },\n {\n type: 'text',\n text: ' '\n },\n {\n type: 'text',\n text: `Created: ${file.createdTime ? new Date(file.createdTime).toLocaleDateString('en-US', { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' }) : 'Unknown'}`,\n fontSize: 14,\n color: '#555555'\n },\n {\n type: 'text',\n text: `Last Modified: ${file.modifiedTime ? new Date(file.modifiedTime).toLocaleDateString('en-US', { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' }) : 'Unknown'}`,\n fontSize: 14,\n color: '#555555'\n },\n {\n type: 'text',\n text: `Owner: ${file.owners && file.owners[0] ? file.owners[0].displayName : 'Unknown'}`,\n fontSize: 14,\n color: '#555555'\n },\n {\n type: 'text',\n text: `Document ${index + 1} of ${files.length}`,\n fontSize: 12,\n color: '#999999'\n }\n ]\n}));\n\nconst config = {\n document: { type: 'pdf', size: 'A4' },\n sections\n};\n\nreturn [{\n json: {\n config: JSON.stringify(config),\n files: files.map((f, i) => ({ id: f.id, name: f.name, index: i }))\n }\n}];"
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{
"id": "8b1072a9-f029-469e-976d-626a004b9cdf",
"name": "Render Title Pages PDF",
"type": "n8n-nodes-autype.autype",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"config": "={{ $json.config }}",
"downloadOutput": true,
"additionalFields": {}
},
"credentials": {
"autypeApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "4a104ef5-2c17-43be-8714-1cf82c721247",
"name": "Prepare Loop Items",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"position": [
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"parameters": {
"jsCode": "const titlePagesFileId = $input.first().json.id;\nconst files = $('Build Title Pages JSON').first().json.files;\n\nreturn files.map((file, index) => ({\n json: {\n driveFileId: file.id,\n fileName: file.name,\n titlePageNumber: index + 1,\n titlePagesFileId\n }\n}));"
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{
"id": "63b3a4fd-934e-42be-891d-a739754d75fb",
"name": "Loop Over Documents",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches",
"position": [
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"parameters": {
"options": {}
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"typeVersion": 3
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{
"id": "c681fbb2-c13f-42aa-bad4-49f9fffaf3ab",
"name": "Download PDF from Drive",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleDrive",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"fileId": {
"__rl": true,
"mode": "id",
"value": "={{ $json.driveFileId }}"
},
"options": {},
"operation": "download"
},
"credentials": {
"googleDriveOAuth2Api": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 3
},
{
"id": "076f31fa-88ea-415e-90fd-398e7143f5f2",
"name": "Upload Document to Autype",
"type": "n8n-nodes-autype.autype",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"resource": "file"
},
"credentials": {
"autypeApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "d9274e8c-63a2-458e-b345-36bff5e86805",
"name": "Extract Title Page",
"type": "n8n-nodes-autype.autype",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"pages": "={{ $('Loop Over Documents').item.json.titlePageNumber.toString() }}",
"fileId": "={{ $('Loop Over Documents').item.json.titlePagesFileId }}",
"resource": "documentTools",
"operation": "pages"
},
"credentials": {
"autypeApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "200b57c5-9e1b-458d-bc8a-4ba429bcd4eb",
"name": "Collect Merge Pair",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"jsCode": "const titlePageFileId = $json.outputFileId\nconst docFileId = $('Upload Document to Autype').item.json.id;\nconst fileName = $('Loop Over Documents').item.json.fileName;\n\nreturn [{\n json: {\n titlePageFileId,\n docFileId,\n fileName\n }\n}];"
},
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},
{
"id": "dfc3c022-b648-42d7-8893-cbd6fbfbb76f",
"name": "Build Final Merge List",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"jsCode": "const items = $input.all();\nconst fileIds = [];\n\nfor (const item of items) {\n fileIds.push(item.json.titlePageFileId);\n fileIds.push(item.json.docFileId);\n}\n\nreturn [{ json: { fileIds: fileIds.join(',') } }];"
},
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"id": "6b33fa02-ec93-425a-a0b5-48eeda174bc6",
"name": "Merge All PDFs",
"type": "n8n-nodes-autype.autype",
"position": [
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-144
],
"parameters": {
"fileIds": "={{ $json.fileIds }}",
"resource": "documentTools"
},
"credentials": {
"autypeApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "6f37f228-0540-4677-85bd-18ce47e15fc7",
"name": "Add Company Watermark",
"type": "n8n-nodes-autype.autype",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"text": "Your Company Name",
"fileId": "={{ $('Merge All PDFs').item.json.outputFileId }}",
"resource": "documentTools",
"operation": "watermark",
"downloadOutput": true,
"watermarkOptions": {
"color": "#2563EB",
"opacity": 0.6,
"fontSize": 14,
"rotation": 45
}
},
"credentials": {
"autypeApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 1
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{
"id": "2f181d44-a882-4297-8514-d7d52fdc51e1",
"name": "Save Final PDF to Drive",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleDrive",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"name": "=merged-documents-{{ $now.format('yyyy-MM-dd') }}.pdf",
"driveId": {
"__rl": true,
"mode": "list",
"value": "My Drive"
},
"options": {},
"folderId": {
"__rl": true,
"mode": "id",
"value": "YOUR_FOLDER_ID"
}
},
"credentials": {
"googleDriveOAuth2Api": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 3
},
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"id": "4054763c-74c8-4369-a40d-82c6e437a04c",
"name": "Sticky Note",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"width": 560,
"height": 1128,
"content": "## Merge All PDFs from Google Drive with Generated Title Pages and Watermark\n### This workflow reads every PDF from a Google Drive folder, generates a title page for each document (showing name, dates, and owner), merges everything into a single PDF with interleaved title pages, adds a company watermark, and uploads the result back to Drive.\n\nClick \"Test Workflow\" to run it once. Each document gets a professional cover sheet before its content.\n\n### How it works\n1. **List PDFs in Folder** \u2014 Searches a Google Drive folder for all PDF files.\n2. **Build Title Pages JSON** \u2014 A Code node creates an Autype Render JSON config with one page section per document (name, created date, modified date, owner, document number).\n3. **Render Title Pages PDF** \u2014 Autype renders all title pages as a single multi-page PDF in one API call.\n4. **Upload Title Pages PDF** \u2014 Uploads the rendered PDF to Autype Tools for page extraction.\n5. **Loop Over Documents** \u2014 For each PDF:\n - Downloads from Google Drive\n - Uploads to Autype Tools\n - Extracts the corresponding title page from the title pages PDF\n - Collects the title page file ID and document file ID as a merge pair\n6. **Build Final Merge List** \u2014 Interleaves file IDs: title page 1, doc 1, title page 2, doc 2, etc.\n7. **Merge All PDFs** \u2014 Combines everything into one document in order.\n8. **Add Company Watermark** \u2014 Stamps the company name in blue on every page (top-right area, 60% opacity).\n9. **Save Final PDF to Drive** \u2014 Uploads the result as `merged-documents-YYYY-MM-DD.pdf` to the same Google Drive folder.\n\n### Requirements\n* **Autype account** \u2014 Sign up at [app.autype.com](https://app.autype.com) and go to **Settings \u2192 API Keys** to generate your API key.\n* **Google Drive** \u2014 Connect your Google account via OAuth2 in n8n credentials.\n* **n8n-nodes-autype** \u2014 Install the Autype community node via **Settings \u2192 Community Nodes** in your self-hosted n8n instance.\n\n> \u26a0\ufe0f Community node: requires self-hosted n8n. Not available on n8n Cloud."
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"name": "Sticky Note1",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"position": [
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-48
],
"parameters": {
"color": 7,
"width": 700,
"height": 348,
"content": "### 1. List & Generate Title Pages\nSearches the Google Drive folder for all PDFs. A Code node builds the Autype Render JSON with one title page section per document. Autype renders all title pages in a single API call as one multi-page PDF."
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "1dadec4d-7472-4c42-b387-2caa94b4dfba",
"name": "Sticky Note2",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"position": [
976,
80
],
"parameters": {
"color": 7,
"width": 908,
"height": 316,
"content": "### 2. Loop: Download, Upload, Extract Title Page\nFor each document: download from Drive, upload to Autype, extract the matching title page (by page number) from the title pages PDF, and collect both file IDs as a merge pair."
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "37e287d7-76c4-4f92-90be-88ce05a7da5e",
"name": "Sticky Note3",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"position": [
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"parameters": {
"color": 7,
"width": 908,
"height": 268,
"content": "### 3. Merge, Watermark & Save\nAfter the loop, file IDs are interleaved (title1, doc1, title2, doc2...) and merged into one PDF. A blue company-name watermark is added to every page. The final PDF is uploaded to Google Drive."
},
"typeVersion": 1
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{
"id": "cac87ec3-79ab-4067-ad80-10be4b4ab95b",
"name": "Upload Title Pages PDF",
"type": "n8n-nodes-autype.autype",
"position": [
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128
],
"parameters": {
"resource": "file"
},
"credentials": {
"autypeApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 1
}
],
"active": false,
"settings": {
"binaryMode": "separate",
"availableInMCP": false,
"executionOrder": "v1"
},
"versionId": "autype-drive-example-id",
"connections": {
"Run Workflow": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "List PDFs in Folder",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Merge All PDFs": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Add Company Watermark",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Collect Merge Pair": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Loop Over Documents",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Extract Title Page": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Collect Merge Pair",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Prepare Loop Items": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Loop Over Documents",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"List PDFs in Folder": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Build Title Pages JSON",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Loop Over Documents": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Build Final Merge List",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
],
[
{
"node": "Download PDF from Drive",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Add Company Watermark": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Save Final PDF to Drive",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Build Final Merge List": {
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[
{
"node": "Merge All PDFs",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
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{
"node": "Render Title Pages PDF",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Render Title Pages PDF": {
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}
]
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},
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"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Download PDF from Drive": {
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"type": "main",
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}
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}
]
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}
}
}
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