n8n-nodes-hostsmith

n8n-nodes-hostsmith

An n8n community node for Hostsmith — manage your Hostsmith sites, domains, and account from your workflows.

It authenticates with Hostsmith's OAuth 2.0 (Authorization Code + PKCE) and talks to the Hostsmith Public API.

Installation

In n8n: Settings → Community Nodes → Install, then enter n8n-nodes-hostsmith.

Or install from npm in your n8n instance:

npm install n8n-nodes-hostsmith

Operations

The Hostsmith node exposes three resources:

Resource	Operations
Account	Get (org details, plan limits, usage)
Domain	List (all / shared only / custom only)
Site	Create, Delete, Deploy, Get, List

The node resolves the partition API host (https://us.api.hostsmith.net / https://eu.api.hostsmith.net) automatically — there is no partition setting on the credential:

• Account Get uses your account's home partition (read from the token).
• Site List and Domain List query both partitions and merge the results, so you see everything regardless of where it lives.
• Site Create uses the partition of the domain you pick.
• Site Get / Delete / Deploy use the partition of the site you pick (see below).

Selecting a site or domain

• For Site → Create, the Domain field is a searchable picker of your domains across both partitions (each labelled with its partition). You can also switch it to By Name and type a domain manually.
• For Site → Get / Delete / Deploy, the Site field is a searchable picker (From List) of your sites across both partitions, or By ID to enter a Site ID directly. The accompanying Partition field defaults to Auto-Detect, which reads the partition from the site you picked From List. When you enter a Site ID By ID, set the Partition to us or eu (Auto-Detect can't resolve a hand-typed ID) — you can pick it from the list or type it.

Deploy

Site → Deploy publishes one or more files to a site as a new version, using Hostsmith's presigned upload flow (POST /uploads → PUT each part → POST …/finalize):

• Add a row to the Files table per file. Each row has a Source — Binary (a binary property of the input item, e.g. data) or Text (inline content, ideal for AI/template-generated HTML or JSON) — and a required File Name giving the destination path within the site (e.g. index.html, assets/style.css).
• All rows are uploaded together under one version, so a single Deploy publishes a coherent multi-file site.
• Files larger than 5 MB are automatically split into 5 MB multipart parts.
• Large deploys: n8n holds binary data in memory by default. For large files, run n8n with N8N_DEFAULT_BINARY_DATA_MODE=filesystem so file bytes aren't held entirely in memory.

Bytes are read only from binary input or inline text — the node never touches the filesystem.

Authentication

Add a Hostsmith OAuth2 API credential. Hostsmith is a public OAuth client (PKCE, no client secret), so you only ever provide a Client ID — never a secret. You get that Client ID by creating an OAuth client in the Hostsmith dashboard.

• Copy your OAuth Redirect URL. n8n shows it on the credential screen — it's your instance's callback: <your-n8n-base-url>/rest/oauth2-credential/callback (e.g. http://localhost:5678/rest/oauth2-credential/callback for local, or https://<your-host>/rest/oauth2-credential/callback for n8n Cloud / self-hosted). For self-hosted, make sure N8N_EDITOR_BASE_URL / WEBHOOK_URL is set so this URL is correct.
• Create a client in Hostsmith. Sign in and open Developers → OAuth Clients (hostsmith.net/developers/oauth-clients) → New client → give it a name and paste the redirect URL from step 1 → copy the generated Client ID. The client is owned by your org and revocable any time; no secret is issued.
• Connect. Paste the Client ID into the credential's Client ID field and click Connect my account to complete the consent flow. There's no partition to choose — the node selects the right host per operation.

Scopes

The credential requests account:read sites:read sites:write domains:read files:write (the files:write scope authorizes Site Deploy uploads). The issued token is bound to both partition API hosts, so one credential works for us and eu — the node picks the right host per operation, so there's no partition setting to configure.

Resources

• Create an OAuth client (Hostsmith dashboard)
• Hostsmith API authentication docs
• n8n community nodes documentation

License

MIT