n8n-nodes-newapi

This is an n8n community node for NewAPI - an OpenAI compatible API service.

Features

• Chat Completions: Send messages to AI models and get responses
• Model List: Query available models
• OpenAI Compatible: Works with GPT-4, Claude, and other models

Installation

For Docker deployments

Add the following to your docker-compose.yml:

environment:
  - N8N_CUSTOM_EXTENSIONS=/home/node/.n8n/custom
volumes:
  - ./custom:/home/node/.n8n/custom

Then copy the built package to the custom folder:

cp -r dist /path/to/custom/n8n-nodes-newapi

For npm installations

# In your n8n installation directory
cd ~/.n8n
npm install /path/to/n8n-nodes-newapi

For local development

# Build the package
cd ~/Documents/n8n-development/n8n-nodes-newapi
npm run build

# Link the package
npm link

# In n8n custom directory
cd ~/.n8n
npm link n8n-nodes-newapi

# Start n8n
n8n start

Configuration

1. In n8n, go to Credentials and create a new NewAPI Credentials
2. Enter your API Key (starts with sk-)
3. Optionally modify the Base URL (default: https://newapi.lvis.lol)

Usage

Chat Completion

1. Add a NewAPI node to your workflow
2. Select Chat as the resource
3. Select Complete as the operation
4. Enter the model name (e.g., gpt-4o-mini, claude-3-5-sonnet)
5. Enter your message
6. Optionally add a system message and adjust parameters

List Models

1. Add a NewAPI node to your workflow
2. Select Model as the resource
3. Select List as the operation

Parameters

| Parameter | Description | |-----------|-------------| | Model | The AI model to use (e.g., gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, claude-3-5-sonnet) | | User Message | The message to send to the model | | System Message | Optional system prompt to set behavior | | Max Tokens | Maximum tokens in the response (default: 1024) | | Temperature | Randomness control 0-2 (default: 0.7) | | Top P | Nucleus sampling 0-1 (default: 1) |

Output

The node returns the API response with an additional message field containing the extracted response text for easy access.

{
  "id": "chatcmpl-xxx",
  "choices": [...],
  "message": "The extracted response text"
}

Project Location

This project is located at:

~/Documents/n8n-development/n8n-nodes-newapi

License

MIT

Author

qiyu