Dictionary to Outputs 🔀

Dictionary to Outputs is the escape hatch for ComfyUI's DICT type. ComfyUI's node graph is built on individual typed wires - an INT here, a STRING there - but a dictionary is one fat pipe carrying many values at once. That's great for moving a bundle of data in one wire, and useless until you can pry the values back out. This node does the prying.

How it works

Feed it a dictionary (the DICT output from the pack's Dynamic Dictionary, String to Dict, or anything else producing a compatible dict) and up to four key fields, and you get the dict back plus value_1 through value_4 as separate ANY outputs. The behavior is simple:

• Type a key name in key_1, key_2, etc., and that output holds the value for that key.
• Leave a key blank, and it falls back to pulling values sequentially from the dict's order.

So a dict of {"prompt": "...", "steps": 30, "seed": 42} with key_1 set to "prompt" gives you the prompt on value_1 without caring about dict order. Leave all keys blank and you just get the first few values in whatever order they were inserted.

The output_count slider (1–50, default 4) is where it gets flexible: the node dynamically resizes its own outputs to match. Bump it to 10 and you get ten value sockets. This is a genuinely handy trick - the node edits its own class definition at runtime so ComfyUI re-renders the correct number of outputs. It's technically a bit of a hack, but it works, and it's the kind of thing only a QoL utility pack attempts.

Where you'll use it

The typical pipeline: some node (an API response parser, a metadata reader, a multi-value utility) hands you a DICT, and you need the individual fields scattered across different parts of the graph - one value into a text field, another into a seed, another into a sampler setting. One Dictionary to Outputs replaces a pile of string-splitting and index gymnastics.

The outputs are typed * (ANY), so they'll plug into any socket. One caveat: a dict key that doesn't exist yields None on that output, so if your workflow silently produces nothing downstream, check that the key name matches exactly - including case and whitespace.

Install

It's part of drmbt/comfyui-dreambait-nodes. ComfyUI Manager, search "comfyui-dreambait-nodes"; or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/drmbt/comfyui-dreambait-nodes

then restart ComfyUI. As with the rest of the pack, the install brings the full dependency list (transformers, bitsandbytes, librosa…) even though this node is pure Python dict plumbing - the price of a grab-bag pack. If you're already in the pack for Dynamic Dictionary, this is its natural partner: build a dict, then unpack the fields you actually need.