I am new to NodeRED and I'm testing out the APIs. I am trying to Post/trigger a flow on nodeRED through postman. According to the api documentation, something like this should work: curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:1880/flows' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --header …

Hi @Ihum You mixing together two different actions. The requests to /flows or /flow are used to change what flows are currently deployed in the runtime. The payload format used by /flow is different to /flows - which is why you are getting an error. The docs cover the details of the required forma…

E1cid 9 November 2022 10:27 4

Also if you want the flow to trigger after deploy, the you would need to set the inject to trigger once after 0.1 seconds

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