Files list from dir [darkilNodes]

Most workflows load files by picking them from a ComfyUI-provided dropdown. This node does the opposite: it scans a directory and hands you the result as a list, a text blob, a count, and first/last filenames - which is exactly what you want when a workflow needs to process "whatever's newest in this folder" or loop over a batch of images you dropped in a directory. It's the file-glob node the stock UI never quite gives you.

How it works

You give it a folder_path and a files_extension filter, and it globs the directory. The filter is smarter than a plain extension: png and .png are normalized to *.png, and if you type something containing *, ? or [, it's treated as a full glob pattern like *_mask.png. Results are filtered to real files (directories and broken symlinks are skipped), sorted by date, name or size in either direction, and optionally recursed into subfolders.

The inputs that matter:

• folder_path (STRING) - the directory to scan.
• files_extension (STRING, default *.*) - extension or glob pattern.
• sort_by (COMBO) - by_date, by_date_desc, by_name, by_name_desc, by_size, by_size_desc.
• sub_foldres (BOOLEAN) - recursive search. (Yes, that's the actual spelling on the socket.)
• keep_extensions (BOOLEAN, default true) - strip file extensions if you only want stems.
• keep_full_path (BOOLEAN, default false) - return absolute paths instead of filenames.

The outputs

This is where it earns its keep:

• found_list (STRING, list type) - every matched file, one per list entry, ready to iterate.
• found_as_text (STRING) - the same list as a newline-separated blob, easy to paste or log.
• last_filename / first_filename (STRING) - the boundary entries after sorting, so "load the newest" becomes a wire from last_filename with sort_by set to by_date_desc.
• files_count (INT) - how many files matched, for loop bounds or sanity checks.
• ❓help (STRING) - the pack's signature documentation socket.

One behavior worth knowing: the node marks itself as always-changed, so it re-scans every run - no stale caches if you drop a new file into the folder mid-session.

Where people get burned

Path mistakes, mostly. The path is resolved against the machine running ComfyUI (your ~ works), and a nonexistent folder returns an empty list rather than an error - so a workflow that "silently outputs nothing" is usually a typo in folder_path. And if you filter *.* with recursion on a big folder, expect the scan to take a moment; the node is synchronous. Also note keep_extensions only strips extensions on the display output, so if you wire found_list into a loader that needs real filenames, leave it on.

Installing

In pytraveler/comfyui-darkil-nodes. ComfyUI Manager search ComfyUI-darkil-nodes, or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/pytraveler/comfyui-darkil-nodes

Restart. No Python deps or models - it's a stdlib-pathlib node.