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There was no way to get a workflow back out of n8n through the dashboard:
the catalog listed installed workflows but offered no export path, so a
user could not back up, diff, or migrate a definition they built.
GET /api/workflows/n8n/{id}/export fetches the definition with
excludePinnedData, refuses redirects, and returns only the portable keys
(name, nodes, connections, settings) as a no-store attachment — runtime
state, pin data, and sharing metadata never leave the server.
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Summary
GET /api/workflows/n8n/{n8n_id}/exportfetches the definition from n8n withexcludePinnedData=trueandallow_redirects=False.name,nodes,connections,settings) —staticData, pin data,active, andsharedmetadata never leave the server.no-storeattachmentdownload; maps n8n 404→404, other non-200→502, timeout→504, malformed payloads→502.docs/WORKFLOW_EXPORT.md; covered bytests/test_workflow_export.py(6 cases).Why this matters
The dashboard could list and enable installed workflows but offered no way to get a definition back out — users couldn't back up, diff, or migrate work they built in n8n. Export is read-only and deliberately strips runtime/pin state so an export can't leak per-install secrets embedded in pinned data.
Overlap check
workflows,export,n8n,workflows.py— fix(workflows): tolerate malformed catalog records and executions payloads #5672 (malformed catalog records), fix(workflows): report the workflow n8n created when activation fails #5644 (activation reporting), fix(workflows): match n8n workflows by exact name and stop duplicate imports #5554 (name matching), fix(dashboard-api): validate pagination bounds on workflow executions endpoint #5181 (executions pagination bounds), Add exception chaining (from e) to all raise statements in except blo… #5476 (exception chaining) all touch different functions in the same file.Test plan
python -m pytest tests/test_workflow_export.py— 6 passed locally (boundary matrix + identity validation).