How to Retrieve & Upload Binary Data from HuggingFace Inference API in n8n?

Hi everyone! I have a workflow in n8n that calls a HuggingFace Inference (flux) API with a list of prompts to generate images. I’m trying to save those generated images to a Google Drive folder, but I’m running into trouble with the binary data. The Google Drive ‘Upload File’ node keeps failing, saying it expects binary data but can’t find any.

I’ve tried setting the ‘Call huggingface inference api’ node to return binary data (by switching ‘Response Format’ to ‘File’ and specifying a binary property name), but it still seems to come back in JSON or base64 form.

Has anyone managed to successfully fetch binary/image data from a HuggingFace endpoint and upload it to Google Drive in one go? If so, could you share how you configured your HTTP request node and the Upload File node? I’d really appreciate any tips or example workflows! Thanks!

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