SFTP Read

Read a file from an SFTP server with optional CSV / TSV / JSON / JSON Lines / XML parsing.

Requires an SFTP connection.

Configuration

Field	Description	Notes
SFTP Connection	The SFTP connection to use	Required. Select from your configured SFTP connections.
File Path	Path to the file on the SFTP server	Required. Supports templates. Example: /exports/report.csv
Parse Format	How to parse the downloaded body	raw (default), json, jsonl, csv, tsv, or xml

Input

The node accepts an optional file_path input. If the File Path field is left empty, the node extracts a path from upstream data (looking for file_path, path, or file fields).

Output

Returns {path, filename, size, content_type, modified_at, parse_format, content} where:

Field	Description
path	The full path that was read
filename	The filename portion of path
size	File size in bytes
content_type	MIME type (best-effort; may be empty for SFTP)
modified_at	Last-modified timestamp
parse_format	Echoes the parse_format setting
content	Parsed body — string for raw, []map[string]any for csv/tsv/jsonl, map/[]any for json/xml

Streaming

Per-item fan-out: when wired downstream of an SFTP List Files node, SFTP Read processes one file per upstream item using {{ item.path }} (or whatever template you set for File Path).

TIP

The multi-file selection (single / multiple / latest with pattern matching) and built-in gzip decompression that earlier versions of this node supported have been removed. If you need to read several files, do SFTP List Files + SFTP Read with per-item fan-out. For compressed bodies, run the bytes through a downstream gzip-decode step.