n8n-nodes-grain

An n8n community node for Grain — the AI meeting recorder and note‑taker.

Pull recordings, transcripts, highlights and AI summaries into your workflows, manage tags and
sharing, and kick off automations the moment a meeting is recorded — all without writing a single
HTTP Request node.

• 🎥 Recordings — list, fetch, rename, tag, and share
• 📝 Transcripts — JSON, plain text, VTT, or SRT
• 🤖 AI data — summaries, action items, highlights, participants
• ⚡ Real‑time triggers — start workflows on 10 Grain webhook events
• 👥 Directory — look up users, teams, and meeting types

Table of contents

• Installation
• Credentials
• Nodes & operations
• Example workflows
• Compatibility
• Resources
• License

Installation

From the n8n UI (self‑hosted)

1. Go to Settings → Community Nodes → Install.
2. Enter n8n-nodes-grain and confirm.

Community nodes require N8N_COMMUNITY_PACKAGES_ENABLED=true (the default for self‑hosted). n8n
also gates non‑verified packages behind N8N_UNVERIFIED_PACKAGES_ENABLED — make sure it is true.

Via npm (manual / Docker images)

npm install n8n-nodes-grain

Credentials

You need a Grain access token.

1. In Grain, open Settings → Integrations → API.
2. Create one of:
   • Personal Access Token (PAT) — acts as you, with your permissions.
   • Workspace Access Token (WAT) — workspace‑wide (admin only, Business/Enterprise plans).
3. In n8n, add a Grain API credential and paste the token.

The credential also exposes two advanced fields you normally won't touch:

The credential's Connection test verifies your token against the live API before you save it.

Nodes & operations

🟣 Grain

Get Many (Recording) supports server‑side filters — recorded before/after, participant scope
(internal/external), title search, team, and meeting type — plus automatic cursor pagination when
Return All is enabled.

Include (on Get and Get Many) expands each recording with any of: highlights, participants,
AI summary, AI action items, calendar event, screenshares.

Get Transcript returns the transcript as structured JSON (with speakers and timestamps) or as
Plain Text / VTT / SRT for captioning and downstream tooling.

🟣 Grain Trigger

Starts a workflow the moment Grain fires an event. Select one or more:

recording_added · recording_updated · recording_deleted ·
highlight_added · highlight_updated · highlight_deleted ·
story_added · story_updated · story_deleted · upload_status

The node registers a Grain webhook per selected event when the workflow is activated and
removes them automatically when it is deactivated — no manual webhook cleanup. Use Include to
have Grain embed summaries, highlights, participants, etc. directly in the event payload.

Example workflows

Post every new meeting summary to Slack

Grain Trigger (recording_added, include: AI Summary)
        │
        ▼
Slack → Send message  →  {{$json.data.ai_summary}}

Archive transcripts to Google Drive nightly

Schedule Trigger (daily)
        │
        ▼
Grain → Recording: Get Many (Return All, recorded after = yesterday)
        │
        ▼
Grain → Recording: Get Transcript (SRT)
        │
        ▼
Google Drive → Upload

Compatibility

• n8n with community‑node support (N8N_COMMUNITY_PACKAGES_ENABLED=true).
• Built and tested against the Grain public API version 2025-10-31.
• Node.js 20+.

Resources

• n8n community nodes documentation
• Grain API documentation
• Grain

License

MIT © Mantas M.