@chroniclehq/n8n-nodes-chronicle

Official n8n community node for Chronicle — generate AI-powered presentations and decks from your workflows.

Installation

In n8n: Settings → Community Nodes → Install and enter @chroniclehq/n8n-nodes-chronicle.

For self-hosted installations, see n8n's community node docs.

Credentials

1. In Chronicle, go to Workspace Settings → API Keys and create a key.
2. In n8n, create a new Chronicle API credential and paste the key (starts with chr_).
3. The default base URL is https://api.chroniclehq.com. Change it only if you're on a self-hosted Chronicle deployment.

Click Test on the credential to verify it works before saving.

Operations

Presentation

• Generate a presentation and poll — generate a deck from a prompt and wait for it to complete. Returns the full presentation (including the URL) when done. Use this when you want a synchronous "in → out" flow.
• Create from template and poll — generate a deck from a Chronicle template plus a prompt, and wait for completion. Returns the full presentation. Use this when you have a template-based design system.
• Generate a presentation — start a generation (with optional template) and return a generation_id immediately. Use this when you want to fan out generations and check their status later.
• Get generation status — check the status of a generation by ID. Returns one of generating, completed, or failed, with progress info when available.

Attachment

• Upload an attachment — upload a file from a previous node's binary output to Chronicle, returning an attachment object (id, url, file_name, type) ready to drop into the Attachments field of any Generate op. PDFs, .pptx, .txt, .md, and images are all supported.

Template

• List templates — list templates available to your workspace. Also powers the template picker dropdown inside the Generate ops.

Storyline preferences

When using Generate a presentation and poll or Generate a presentation without a template, you can shape how Chronicle plans the deck by setting any of:

• Narrative Type — Auto, Pitch, Showcase, Sales, Proposal, Research, Guide, Meeting, Portfolio
• Rewrite Style — Strong, Subtle, Preserve
• Section Count — a positive integer or auto
• Language — one of the 14 supported language codes (us, uk, es, fr, de, it, pt, cn, in, ja, ko, ar, hi, bn)

These are server-side ignored when a template is selected (the template's structure takes over).

Common workflows

Generate from a prompt (simplest)

Manual Trigger  →  Chronicle: Generate a presentation and poll  →  Set { deck_url }

Generate from an uploaded PDF + template

Webhook / Form / Chat Trigger  →  Chronicle: Upload an attachment  →  Chronicle: Create from template and poll  →  Reply with the URL

Bulk generation with async + status check

Read rows from Google Sheets  →  Chronicle: Generate (async)  →  Save generation_id to sheet

— separate scheduled workflow —
Read rows where status='generating'  →  Chronicle: Get generation status  →  Update sheet with URL when done

AI agent / tool use

This node has usableAsTool: true, so it's available to n8n's AI agents. An agent can call Generate ops directly when configured as a tool.

Resources

• Chronicle developer docs
• n8n community node guide
• Report an issue

License

MIT