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When trying to read or write data to and from a long text field via the API, I am loosing the newlines.

This is an example of what I have in the field:

When reading the content through the API, I am getting this:

Also, when writing \n to the field via the API it get's stored literally, i.e., is not translated into linebreaks:

I cannot find any hint how to encode newlines in the API docs or the forum.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

 

 

For what it's worth, I just tested this with Postman and was able to retrieve long text fields with the line break fine

I was also able to create new records with line breaks fine:

Weird!  Could you try out Postman to see whether your problem still persists?


Thanks, Adam. Just tried, actually works as well using Postman. 

Super weird. This is n8n I am using. Seems to be doing some undocumented escaping.


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