# Additions to the Tulip API, Export an Applications JSON and Import an APP **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Suggestions\ **Tags:** api, json, export\ **Created:** [February 16, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590 "2023-02-16T22:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mellerbeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mellerbeck](https://community.tulip.co/u/mellerbeck)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/1 "2023-02-16T22:47:46Z")
Would be nice to be able to export the json for a tulip app through the API. As well as being able to import an app. ---
**Author:** ![mglidden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/mglidden/32/3894_2.png) [@mglidden](https://community.tulip.co/u/mglidden)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/2 "2023-02-17T14:57:47Z")
@mellerbeck Thanks for the suggestion! We’re currently in the middle of a rewrite of our import/export APIs (mostly performance oriented, but also working to expose import/export for connectors, table schemas, etc). Once we wrap that up, we’re planning to expose those APIs as part of our public API. A bit further down the line, we’re also planning to expose APIs for getting and editing apps directly. ---
**Author:** ![mglidden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/mglidden/32/3894_2.png) [@mglidden](https://community.tulip.co/u/mglidden)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/3 "2023-02-17T15:54:13Z")
@mellerbeck Also, just curious – what would you like to use the import/export API for? ---
**Author:** ![youri.regnaud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/youri.regnaud/32/2917_2.png) [@youri.regnaud](https://community.tulip.co/u/youri.regnaud)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/4 "2023-02-21T20:47:17Z")
Some feedbacks about more API in Tulip. Connectors functions API can be use to automate functions creation based on OpenAPI specifications and ensure function harmonization. Machines and machine type API can be use to create from edge device with metadata ressources in Tulip JSON linter (Spectral) can be also use to check apps naming convention, functions, … ---
**Author:** ![mellerbeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mellerbeck](https://community.tulip.co/u/mellerbeck)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/5 "2023-03-02T22:00:24Z")
I would use it to automate this script 🙂 [Tulip App Info script](https://community.tulip.co/t/tulip-app-info-script/7694) ---
**Author:** ![thorsten.langner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@thorsten.langner](https://community.tulip.co/u/thorsten.langner)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/6 "2023-03-03T00:16:22Z")
Then maybe there should be an API that directly delivers more data about the apps. Maybe as an extend function on the App Folder API. ---
**Author:** ![mglidden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/mglidden/32/3894_2.png) [@mglidden](https://community.tulip.co/u/mglidden)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/7 "2023-03-03T18:47:56Z")
Definitely agree on the App API. We’re working on extending the App Folder API right now, then will start adding app actions to it as well. @mellerbeck Thanks for sharing – cool use of it! Just as a heads up, that zip format is going to change at some point in the next 6 months. We don’t consider the format part of our public API and aren’t going to be able to maintain backwards compatibility there. ---
**Author:** ![mellerbeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mellerbeck](https://community.tulip.co/u/mellerbeck)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/8 "2023-03-04T02:04:25Z")
Thanks for the heads up! No worries, figured it might change in the future ---
**Author:** ![AdamHadlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@AdamHadlock](https://community.tulip.co/u/AdamHadlock)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/9 "2024-04-18T17:53:54Z")
We are a regulated industry and very much need the ability to trigger an export of an app state to store with a certain technical data package of what we produce. Is there an update on this ability? Specifically to call an api and get the app information (reading a json representation would be fine for now). Even better is there a way to trigger some event when an app is updated? published? ---
**Author:** ![sebme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@sebme](https://community.tulip.co/u/sebme)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/10 "2024-04-24T12:57:16Z")
Don’t tell me you are going binary, do you? 😵‍💫 ---
**Author:** ![danielpomeranz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/danielpomeranz/32/9379_2.png) [@danielpomeranz](https://community.tulip.co/u/danielpomeranz)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/11 "2024-07-19T12:43:27Z")
I have a client who would like to keep local backups of their app configuration for compliance with their data backup policy. Has their been any solution to solving this problem programmatically? Is there any way that Tulip can offer regular backups of app configuration which customers can store locally? Or for the foreseeable future is the only solution to manually export? ---
**Author:** ![akbeta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/akbeta/32/7900_2.png) [@akbeta](https://community.tulip.co/u/akbeta)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/additions-to-the-tulip-api-export-an-applications-json-and-import-an-app/7590/12 "2025-01-21T15:11:38Z")
Bumping this thread - is there any way to access the JSON via API or trigger an export yet?