Restore Your Workflows from GitHub
This workflow is designed to help users automatically batch restore workflow backups from GitHub repositories, enabling one-click restoration to ensure data security and operational convenience. By configuring GitHub information, users can quickly synchronize and restore multiple workflows, effectively addressing recovery challenges caused by operational errors or data loss. It reduces the complexity of manual imports and enhances the continuous and stable operation of workflows, making it suitable for teams and technical personnel that require frequent backups and restorations.
Workflow Name
Restore Your Workflows from GitHub
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow enables automatic batch restoration of all workflow backups in an n8n instance directly from a GitHub repository, achieving one-click recovery to ensure workflow data security and ease of operation. By configuring GitHub repository details, users can quickly synchronize and restore multiple workflows.
Core Problems Addressed
It solves the challenges n8n users face when restoring workflows due to accidental operations, data loss, or environment migration. It eliminates the cumbersome manual import/export process, reduces recovery time and error risks, and ensures continuous and stable workflow operation.
Use Cases
- Backup and restoration of n8n workflows
- Workflow migration across multiple environments or instances
- Regular synchronization of the latest workflow versions from GitHub
- Unified workflow management and rapid deployment in team collaboration
Main Process Steps
- Manual Workflow Trigger: The user clicks “Test workflow” to start the process.
- Set Global Variables: Configure GitHub username, repository name, and file path.
- Retrieve All Files in Specified Path: Use GitHub API to fetch the list of files in the specified directory.
- Split File List: Process each file path individually.
- Fetch File Contents: Pull workflow file contents from GitHub one by one.
- Convert to JSON Format: Parse the retrieved files into n8n workflow JSON data.
- Restore Workflows to n8n Instance: Use n8n API to create and import workflows.
Involved Systems or Services
- GitHub (accessing and retrieving repository files via API)
- n8n platform (importing workflows via API)
Target Users and Value
- n8n developers and automation/operations personnel
- Teams requiring frequent workflow backup and restoration
- Enterprise users aiming for workflow version control, automated backup, and recovery
- Technical staff pursuing automated workflow management and efficient operations
This workflow focuses on security, automation, and efficiency, helping users effortlessly achieve workflow backup and restoration, ensuring business continuity and improving operational efficiency.