Parseur n8n Node

🧩 Official n8n Node to interact with Parseur: receive events, upload text or upload files.

About
Operations
Installation
Credentials
Compatibility
Resources
License

About

Parseur is a powerful no-code data extraction platform that helps you turn emails, PDFs, and other documents into structured data.

This custom n8n Node allows you to:

✅ Trigger workflows when documents or tables are processed (via webhook)
✅ Upload new documents as text (via API)
✅ Upload files to a parser (via API)

Operations

• Upload File: send binary files (PDF, EML, etc.) to a Mailbox
• Upload Text: send plain or HTML content as a document to a Mailbox
• Supports webhook events from Parseur:

Event	Type	Description
document.processed	document	Document processed successfully
document.processed.flattened	document	Document processed as flat data
document.template_needed	document	Processing failed (template needed)
document.export_failed	document	Export failed
table.processed	table	A table field row was processed
table.processed.flattened	table	A table field row (flattened)

Installation

Install from npm

Follow the installation guide in the n8n community nodes documentation.

Install from source

1. Clone and build the node

git clone https://github.com/parseur/parseur-n8n-node <parseur-n8n-node>
cd <parseur-n8n-node>
npm install
npm run build

2. Set up a local n8n instance — outside <parseur-n8n-node>, otherwise the custom-node loader will follow the step-3 symlink into n8n's own node_modules and crash on *.node.js files.

mkdir <n8n>  # NOT in <parseur-n8n-node>
cd <n8n>
npm init -y
npm install sqlite3
npm install n8n

3. Link the Parseur node to n8n

cd ~/.n8n
mkdir -p custom
cd custom
npm init -y
npm link <parseur-n8n-node>

4. Start n8n — you will see Parseur Trigger available.

cd <n8n>
npx n8n

Credentials

To connect n8n with your Parseur account, you'll need two values: an API Key and a Webhook Token.

API Key

Get your API key in the Parseur account settings.
This key is required to authenticate API requests to the Parseur platform.

1. Log in to your Parseur.
2. Navigate to Account.
3. Copy your API Key.

In n8n:

• Click "Add Credential" and search for "Parseur API".
• Paste your API Key into the API Key field.

Webhook Token

The Webhook Token is used to verify that incoming webhook requests (e.g. from n8n to Parseur) are legitimate.

You can generate a secure random token using a service like uuidgenerator.net, or generate one yourself using a tool or script of your choice.

1. Go to uuidgenerator.net.
2. Copy a generated UUID or token string.
3. Paste it into the Webhook Token field in your Parseur credential in n8n.

This token will be expected in the HTTP header X-Parseur-Token of all webhook requests.

Compatibility

Compatible with n8n v1.91.2.

Requires Node.js v22 or later.

Resources

• Parseur — Document processing & data extraction
• n8n — Workflow automation

Version history

Check CHANGELOG.md for more detailed history.

v0.0.7

• Bumped @n8n/node-cli to v0.28.0 (beta track)
• Pinned minimum versions for langchain dependencies (@langchain/community ≥1.1.18, @langchain/core ≥1.1.38, @langchain/classic ≥1.0.31, langsmith ≥0.5.19) via npm overrides
• Added subtitle to the Parseur Trigger node — selected event is now shown under the node name in the workflow canvas
• Documented Node.js v22 requirement

v0.0.6

• Added GitHub Action publishing workflow
• Switched package manager from PNPM to NPM
• Enabled Dependabot and applied multiple dependency updates (langchain, typescript, prettier, undici, release-it, minimatch, gulp, eslint-plugin-n8n-nodes-base)

v0.0.4

• Removed debug log

v0.0.3

• Replaced this.helpers.request with this.helpers.requestWithAuthentication for credential-scoped API calls
• README updates

v0.0.2

• Version bump (no functional changes)

v0.0.1

Initial release

Contributing

We welcome contributions and ideas!

Please open an issue or submit a pull request if you want to improve this node.

License

MIT