How to implement Version Control/Backups in the cloud version

[MutedJam]

Hey @jodeldiplomant, your n8n.cloud instance would talk to the internal API via localhost:5678. So as for the authentication, could you check out this approach shared by @pemontto a while back:

Credential unauthorized

I had to workaround this for my backup workflow. Some /rest endpoints now need a JWT in addition to basic auth. You’ll need to do a single auth request before this, then add a Cookie header in subsequent requests. The JWT expiry seems to be a week, so you should only have to do it once per workflow rather than before each request.

I’ve used this for a few days now and the backup workflow on my n8n.cloud instance didn’t run into trouble since.

That said, this is not a supported or documented API and it can change without any notice. I know the team is working on building a fully supported REST API to make life easier and you might want to add your ideas and requirements to the existing feature request:

Official n8n API

n8n currently doesn’t have an official API. It would be amazing to have an official API that would allow us to Activate/Deactivate a workflow via the API endpoint Check the executions Create a workflow by providing the JSON