Technical Infrastructure & DevOps

[OPS] Restore workflows from GitHub to n8n

Manual

High

Nodes

Manual

Trigger

High

Complexity

7/22/2025

Added

Workflow Overview

Total Nodes

Node Types

manual Trigger

On clicking 'execute'

1 node

set

Globals, Set n8n existing workflows names, Set name and content

3 nodes

sticky Note

Note, Note1, Note2, Note3, Note4

5 nodes

no Op

Workflow name already exists

1 node

If workflow already exists

1 node

github

GitHub - get all files, GitHub - get each file

2 nodes

n8n

n8n - get all workflows, n8n - create workflow

2 nodes

merge

Merge globals and files, Merge Github and n8n workflows - Keep only non existing workflows based on the name

2 nodes

Workflow JSON

12.84 KB

{
  "id": "uoBZx3eMvLMxlHCS",
  "meta": {
    "instanceId": "f4f5d195bb2162a0972f737368404b18be694648d365d6c6771d7b4909d28167",
    "templateCredsSetupCompleted": true
  },
  "name": "[OPS] Restore workflows from GitHub to n8n",
  "tags": [],
  "nodes": [
    {
      "id": "540d147a-8185-4f3e-b2f4-522a19eb6b10",
      "name": "On clicking 'execute'",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger",
      "position": [
        -700,
        780
      ],
      "parameters": {},
      "typeVersion": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "7040674c-57b4-453d-acd4-69cbeff64180",
      "name": "Globals",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.set",
      "position": [
        -500,
        680
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "values": {
          "string": [
            {
              "name": "repo.owner",
              "value": "n8n-io"
            },
            {
              "name": "repo.name",
              "value": "n8n-backups"
            },
            {
              "name": "repo.path",
       ...

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