Hi, I need to get the description of the nodes in a flow programmatically for further processing tasks. I can get this description content manually by selecting the required node set and then using Export ->Clipbord in menu buttons. I am designing a custom node which programmatically reads the desc…

Yes, this API is the one I was looking for. /flows API call gives the description of all deployed flows in the runtime. This is a challenge for me to get only the description of the current flow of a node. I am writing a node to get the description of the flow in which that node belongs to. (using …

shrickus 28 August 2018 16:22 6

Simon,

I've exported the entire set of flows to the library, in case you are interested...
https://flows.nodered.org/flow/87705f8d39d18c6e48ed0a01e54b8e3b

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Get Description of nodes in a flow programatically

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