How to Backup Your Workflow (GitHub)
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You need a process to back up your workflows in case they get deleted.
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Workflows can be exported and imported in two ways:
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In the editor UI :
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Export:
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From the top navigation bar, select the three dots in the top right corner, then select Download . This will download the current workflow to your computer as a JSON file.
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Import:
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From the top navigation bar, select the three dots in the top right, then select Import from URL (to import a published workflow) or Import from file (to import a workflow as a JSON file).
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From the command line:
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Export:
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Import:
How to back up to GitHub
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How to auto-backup n8n workflows to GitHub
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Result
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You can check that it is imported well as follows.
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If you reload it, you can restore it by copying the contents and re-entering them into the n8n workflow.
N8n API Test
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You can check the list of currently active workflows by running the command below in the terminal.
curl -X 'GET' \
'http://localhost:5678/api/v1/workflows?active=true' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'X-N8N-API-KEY: <api_key>'