5 months ago
Hello,
I am running an n8n application (v1.108.1) on your platform with the 8GB plan. My workflow needs to download large binary files (>500MB).
When the workflow runs on Railway, the download request is intercepted by your network. Instead of the large file, I receive a small HTML page, which causes my process to fail. We confirmed this by testing a direct download to a 1GB test file.
Crucially, the exact same n8n workflow runs perfectly in my local Docker environment and successfully downloads files over 670MB.
This proves the issue is specifically with the Railway network environment blocking or interfering with these downloads.
Can you please advise what needs to be configured or whitelisted to allow my n8n instance to perform direct downloads of large binary files?
Thank you.
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
Hey! I'm a bit curious as to what service this is, that small HTML page sounds a good bit like either a captcha or "unauthorized" page.
5 days ago
Hi, I'm facing the exact same issue.
I'm running n8n (v2.4.8) on Railway and trying to download Google Meet recordings (~533 MB) from Google Drive. The download fails with a 512 MB limit error.
I've tried adding N8N_BINARY_DATA_DATABASE_MAX_FILE_SIZE=1073741824 to both my main n8n service and Worker, but it doesn't help.
Has anyone found a solution or workaround for downloading large files on Railway?