# Iterate over config-nodes

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/iterate-over-config-nodes/54554
**Category:** Developing Nodes
**Created:** [1 December 2021 09:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/iterate-over-config-nodes/54554 "2021-12-01T09:03:08Z")
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### Author: ![Dunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Dunken](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dunken)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 09:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/iterate-over-config-nodes/54554/1 "2021-12-01T09:03:08Z")

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Does Node-RED provide an API to iterate over the instances of my config-node on all flows in the backend? Any way how to achieve this?

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### Author: ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 09:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/iterate-over-config-nodes/54554/2 "2021-12-01T09:31:45Z")

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No, there are very limited APIs available in the runtime as we've had no need for nodes to be able to inspect the running flows.

There are plenty of such APIs in the editor as thats more the place where it's needed.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [30 January 2022 09:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/iterate-over-config-nodes/54554/3 "2022-01-30T09:31:56Z")

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