Effortless n8n Credential Recovery From GitHub
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Automate the secure restoration of your n8n instance credentials directly from your GitHub backups. This workflow ensures you can quickly recover and re-establish your critical connections with ease.
About This Workflow
Lost credentials or need to set up a new n8n instance? This powerful workflow streamlines the process of restoring your n8n credentials from a GitHub repository. It intelligently fetches all credential files stored in a specified GitHub path, processes them, and then re-applies them to your n8n instance using the n8n API. Designed for resilience and ease of use, it includes built-in logic to skip irrelevant files or specific credential types, ensuring a clean and efficient restoration. Get your automations back online in no time.
Key Features
- Automated Credential Restoration: Seamlessly recover all your stored n8n credentials from a designated GitHub repository.
- GitHub Integration: Leverages the GitHub API to fetch files, ensuring secure and reliable access to your backups.
- Flexible Configuration: Easily define your GitHub repository owner, name, and the specific path to your credentials.
- Smart Skipping Logic: Includes options to automatically skip empty files or specific credential types like the n8n account API.
- Direct n8n API Usage: Utilizes the n8n API for efficient and accurate re-application of credentials to your instance.
How To Use
- Clone the Workflow: Import this workflow into your n8n instance.
- Configure Globals Node: In the 'Globals' node, update the following parameters:
repo.owner: Your GitHub username.repo.name: The name of your GitHub repository where credentials are stored.repo.path: The folder path within your repository containing the credential files (e.g.,credentials/).
- Connect GitHub Account: In the 'Get all files in given path' and 'Get file content from GitHub' nodes, ensure your GitHub API credentials are set up and authenticated. Navigate to the credential settings and select your GitHub account.
- Connect n8n Account: In the 'Restore n8n Credentials' node, ensure your n8n API credentials are set up and authenticated. This is crucial for the workflow to apply the restored credentials.
- Adjust Skip Logic (Optional): If needed, modify the 'Check for skipped Credentials' node to exclude specific files or credential types based on your requirements.
- Test and Activate: Click 'Test workflow' to run the automation. Once satisfied, activate the workflow to ensure credentials are automatically restored or for manual execution when needed.
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Workflow JSON
{
"id": "cf4a2c40-fd04-49d7-8263-c2834fd7ce4f",
"name": "Effortless n8n Credential Recovery From GitHub",
"nodes": 5,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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