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
Would be nice to have for managing the credentials too.
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An API to query the Workflow Executions and see the Name, Status, Mode, Running Time etc for providing that info to end user without touching the n8n panel.
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I’d love to see this too
Hey @scottyb!
Welcome to the community 
Can you share your use case? It would really help us understand and make sure that when it is released, we have it covered.
Sure!
We have created a workflow that allows us to sync data two pieces of software for a client.
We found that a few other clients want to use the identical flow. I suspect we might end up with dozens, if not hundreds, of clients using the same flow.
If there was an API we would use it to manage credentials, create a flow for a new customer (and update endpoints) etc.
In essence, n8n would be the logic and queue for delivering what could become a SaaS tool. This frees us up to just manage billing and basic authorisation flows for connecting the software.
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Hey all!
I am very interested on it too!
My use case is a bit different I guess: we don’t use n8n UI. Instead, I created a Python client to interact with n8n. This client (very simple!) is based on some reverse engineering I did by observing the requests the UI does.
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Hey @victorpantoja Welcome to n8n community.
This is really cool. I just bookmarked it. Will check in the morning 
Actually I would love to have some kind of API first approach to be able to do anything via API as via UI.
I would be interested in at least the following parts:
- search and filter executions (e.g. for analytical purposes)
- get status of executions (e.g. running, waiting, finished)
- stop/kill running or waiting executions, retry broken executions
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May be I don’t understand but n8n can activate/deactivate download etc. Just use the the endpoint you see in the console.
If you add a http request to turn on and turn of you are done. Can do this from a separate flow based on Cron.
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Is there any updates regarding a possible API?
Hey @victorpantoja,
It is getting there, you can check the progress here: n8n Public API by RicardoE105 · Pull Request #3064 · n8n-io/n8n · GitHub
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Awesome!! Thanks!
Got released with [email protected]
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Amazing, @jan !
Great to hear!!
Are you or is anybody already working on a node for n8n to work with the n8n API?
Awesome, and really loving the API & docs! I did notice that workflow detail GET /workflows/{id} doesn’t include the workflow tags. Is that intended?
Amazing to finally have the n8n API!
Would also love it if it was possible to filter workflows by the nodes, and/or get the list of nodes used in a workflow.
Use-case: it often becomes important to identify which workflows are using a particular node and currently there’s no direct way to achieve that.
Cheers,
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Thank you for the API, works great!