Monitor Dropbox folders for new files with DB comparison
Ready for 3.0Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.
What this workflow does
This workflow has 14 nodes and runs when an HTTP GET request hits its webhook URL. Along the way it connects Dropbox and NocoDB.
How it runs
Trigger: When an HTTP GET request hits its webhook URL.
- Respond to Dropbox in less than 10sec (Respond to Webhook): sends the response back to the webhook caller
- Just a quick answer to Dropbox - webhook validation (Respond to Webhook): sends the response back to the webhook caller
- set_folder A (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: folder_to_watch
- set_folder to watch B (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: folder_to_watch
- Dropbox: list (folder)
- Dropbox: list (folder)
- NocoDB: get many
- Switch: routes items into 2 branches
- Switch: routes items into 2 branches
- Merge: merges the data from its input branches
…plus 3 more steps. See the full node list below.
Services it uses
Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0
Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.
Nodes used (8)
- Webhook
n8n-nodes-base.webhook - Dropbox
n8n-nodes-base.dropbox - Switch
n8n-nodes-base.switch - NocoDB
n8n-nodes-base.nocoDb - Merge
n8n-nodes-base.merge - Respond to Webhook
n8n-nodes-base.respondToWebhook - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set - Execute Sub-workflow
n8n-nodes-base.executeWorkflow
From the author
Here's the corrected English text: Dropbox Folder Monitoring Workflow As we don't have (yet?) a Dropbox node "Watching new files" or "Watching folder", I created this central workflow to do it. How it works - Triggered by Dropbox webhook - I respond…