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n8n Homelab · Google OAuth application

The Google connection for a private automation server.

n8n Homelab is the name of a Google OAuth application. It belongs to a self-hosted n8n automation server that one person runs for their own household. The application is how that server reads from, and writes to, that person's own Google account. It has no other users and is not offered to anyone else.

What the connection is used for

The workflows behind it are ordinary household bookkeeping: watching one family inbox for time-sensitive notices from schools and activity organizations, pulling text out of attached documents so deadlines are not missed, and filing the results where a weekly summary can read them. Nothing on the server is commercial.

Reads

Gmail

Messages that match fixed sender and attachment filters, and their attachments. It does not send, delete, or modify mail.

Writes

Google Drive

Files into folders in the same Google account. It does not read or change files elsewhere in the Drive.

Who uses it

One person. The Google account it connects to and the server it runs on belong to the same person. There is no sign-up and no account other than that one.

What is stored and where is on the privacy page. The terms page says what this is and is not.