# How to modify node-red deploy operation to save flow to database
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-modify-node-red-deploy-operation-to-save-flow-to-database/26568
**Category:** Core Development
**Created:** [13 May 2020 05:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-modify-node-red-deploy-operation-to-save-flow-to-database/26568 "2020-05-13T05:37:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kuema](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kuema)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 12:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-modify-node-red-deploy-operation-to-save-flow-to-database/26568/41 "2020-05-13T12:46:40Z")
I'd even prefer the solution @bakman2 and @Colin presented, by watching the file from within a flow and send it to that API. Nice and clean.
I don't see any reasonable need to modify the core code for this API call.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 14:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-modify-node-red-deploy-operation-to-save-flow-to-database/26568/42 "2020-05-13T14:26:52Z")
so this flow is watching itself ? Fine until someone deletes that part of the flow.
If the end goal really is to do something multi-user (as per [How to modify node-red deploy operation to save flow to database](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-modify-node-red-deploy-operation-to-save-flow-to-database/26568/30)) then using the API is the correct way forward.
Unless the users are people you can afford to upset.
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### Author:  [@kuema](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kuema)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 18:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-modify-node-red-deploy-operation-to-save-flow-to-database/26568/43 "2020-05-13T18:09:11Z")
That watcher could run in a separate Node-RED instance solely for that purpose. 😅
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [12 July 2020 18:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-modify-node-red-deploy-operation-to-save-flow-to-database/26568/44 "2020-07-12T18:09:19Z")
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