This is a n8n community node. It lets you use Paperless-ngx in your n8n workflows.
Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep your paper documents, but lose the cabinet.
Installation
Operations
Credentials
Compatibility
Resources
Follow the installation guide in the n8n community nodes documentation.
Note
This node requires the form-data package for handling multipart/form-data requests. It will be automatically installed as a dependency if not already present in your n8n installation.
The node supports the following resources and operations:
- Get next ASN
- Create/Update/Delete correspondent
- Get a correspondent
- List all correspondents
- Create/Update/Delete custom field
- Get a custom field
- List all custom fields
- Create/Update/Delete document
- Get a document
- Get document history
- Get document metadata
- Get metadata suggestions
- Get document preview
- Get document share links
- List all documents
- Get metadata suggestions
- Create/Delete document note
- List document notes
- Create/Update/Delete document type
- Get a document type
- List all document types
- Create/Update/Delete tag
- Get a tag
- List all tags
- Get a task
This node can also be used to interact with the AI tools agent. However, keep in mind that it is currently not officially supported by n8n and needs some changes to the n8n codebase to work. For more details, see this issue.
You need to provide the following to authenticate:
- Paperless-ngx instance URL
- API token
To get your API token:
- Login to your Paperless-ngx instance
- Go to your user settings
- Create a new API token
Requires n8n version 1.0.0 or later and Paperless-ngx version 2.14.0 or later. Earlier versions may work but are not officially supported or tested.