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{
"id": "JJKkNnO4PQ12gQdE",
"meta": {
"templateCredsSetupCompleted": true
},
"name": "Retry Execution Hourly",
"tags": [
{
"id": "BREwPdgeEC5njFaD",
"name": "In Development",
"createdAt": "2024-04-13T07:17:56.132Z",
"updatedAt": "2024-04-13T07:17:56.132Z"
}
],
"nodes": [
{
"id": "ca8badce-4a43-4e86-acb8-6a3939ffa597",
"name": "When clicking \u2018Test workflow\u2019",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger",
"position": [
580,
740
],
"parameters": {},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "7867cbd1-bf14-488d-9bbf-11d4478f93f2",
"name": "n8n",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.n8n",
"position": [
1160,
860
],
"parameters": {
"filters": {
"status": "error"
},
"options": {
"activeWorkflows": false
},
"resource": "execution",
"returnAll": true,
"requestOptions": {}
},
"credentials": {
"n8nApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "b9826e10-43b9-4a21-b2f8-f91fdee3e6a2",
"name": "Log into n8n",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"position": [
960,
860
],
"parameters": {
"url": "={{ \n\n(() => {\n const instance = $json.n8n_instance;\n const normalizedUrl = instance.endsWith('/') ? instance + 'rest/login' : instance + '/rest/login';\n return normalizedUrl;\n})()\n}}",
"method": "POST",
"options": {
"response": {
"response": {
"fullResponse": true
}
}
},
"sendBody": true,
"sendHeaders": true,
"bodyParameters": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "email",
"value": "={{ $json.username }}"
},
{
"name": "password",
"value": "={{ $json.password }}"
}
]
},
"headerParameters": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "accept",
"value": "application/json, text/plain, */*"
},
{
"name": "accept-language",
"value": "en-US,en;q=0.9"
},
{
"name": "user-agent",
"value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
}
]
}
},
"retryOnFail": true,
"typeVersion": 4.2
},
{
"id": "1ca0527f-ccc4-4b3f-b585-94550987e0d3",
"name": "retry workflow automatically",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"onError": "continueRegularOutput",
"position": [
2080,
980
],
"parameters": {
"url": "={{ \n\n$('login_details').item.json.n8n_instance.endsWith('/') \n ? $('login_details').item.json.n8n_instance + 'rest/executions/' + $json.id + '/retry' \n : $('login_details').item.json.n8n_instance + '/rest/executions/' + $('login_details').item.json.executionid + '/retry'\n\n }} ",
"method": "POST",
"options": {
"redirect": {
"redirect": {}
}
},
"sendBody": true,
"sendHeaders": true,
"bodyParameters": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "loadWorkflow",
"value": "true"
}
]
},
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{
"name": "accept",
"value": "application/json, text/plain, */*"
},
{
"name": "accept-language",
"value": "en-US,en;q=0.9"
},
{
"name": "cookie",
"value": "={{ $('Log into n8n').item.json.headers['set-cookie'][0] }}"
},
{
"name": "user-agent",
"value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
}
]
}
},
"retryOnFail": true,
"typeVersion": 4.2
},
{
"id": "b0b2f473-e12c-4377-80d3-46b18faa09b9",
"name": "If",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.if",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"options": {},
"conditions": {
"options": {
"version": 2,
"leftValue": "",
"caseSensitive": true,
"typeValidation": "strict"
},
"combinator": "and",
"conditions": [
{
"id": "06acbcc4-1a82-4063-8a92-2ebbc6597b4b",
"operator": {
"type": "string",
"operation": "notEmpty",
"singleValue": true
},
"leftValue": "={{ $json.retrySuccessId }}",
"rightValue": ""
}
]
}
},
"typeVersion": 2.2
},
{
"id": "6ea6fe2c-de31-4628-87b1-69e7ba867030",
"name": "No Operation, do nothing",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.noOp",
"position": [
1620,
680
],
"parameters": {},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "851277e1-5b0e-4391-8174-2c118aacfa30",
"name": "Sticky Note",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"position": [
100,
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],
"parameters": {
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"height": 285.0376749192681,
"content": "- ## check for failed executions hourly.\n- ## filter out those that have successful reexecution ids.\n- ## log into n8n and get the session ids.\n- ## retry the executions.\n\n- h\n"
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "5b8bf8c1-f505-42da-936d-637394e71b34",
"name": "login_details",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.set",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"options": {},
"assignments": {
"assignments": [
{
"id": "3edb7f73-73cb-44f4-b891-8499598d9b0a",
"name": "username",
"type": "string",
"value": "gaturanjenga@gmail.com"
},
{
"id": "bc07f892-aacf-4f7c-96d1-64a9e28a4d92",
"name": "password",
"type": "string",
"value": "Password123"
},
{
"id": "59874894-b1ec-4a31-949e-9c3834d68d47",
"name": "n8n_instance",
"type": "string",
"value": "https://ai.gatuservices.info/"
},
{
"id": "68c77c33-15e0-4505-90d0-8129e7a8fbba",
"name": "executionid",
"type": "string",
"value": "={{ $json.id }}"
}
]
}
},
"typeVersion": 3.4
},
{
"id": "74716a90-25a2-48b6-b342-197fe3807a3d",
"name": "Loop Over Items",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches",
"position": [
1620,
940
],
"parameters": {
"options": {},
"batchSize": 5
},
"typeVersion": 3
},
{
"id": "6439f486-68d4-4f9e-8e7f-3df909e32324",
"name": "Schedule Trigger",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger",
"position": [
580,
980
],
"parameters": {
"rule": {
"interval": [
{
"field": "hours"
}
]
}
},
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},
{
"id": "882c03ea-d9e0-4d00-b4c6-5a1c55994fb0",
"name": "Sticky Note1",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"color": 4,
"width": 349.5813953488373,
"height": 278.232558139535,
"content": "## Set the login credential details in the set node, and login to n8n via api."
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
"id": "bcc4d7e3-a91e-4c90-a018-56c6321f6ae2",
"name": "Sticky Note2",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
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"content": "## Get all `Error` executions.\n- ### Filter out those that have been successfully retried\n"
},
"typeVersion": 1
},
{
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"name": "Sticky Note3",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"position": [
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],
"parameters": {
"color": 5,
"width": 444.7441860465116,
"height": 268.139534883721,
"content": "## Retry the executions.\n- ### Feel free to add notifications error messages for failed one to email or slack"
},
"typeVersion": 1
}
],
"active": false,
"settings": {
"executionOrder": "v1"
},
"versionId": "eb687638-734c-4feb-af5a-b49cf1dc661b",
"connections": {
"If": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "No Operation, do nothing",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
],
[
{
"node": "Loop Over Items",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"n8n": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "If",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Log into n8n": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "n8n",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"execution_id": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "retry workflow automatically",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"login_details": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Log into n8n",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Loop Over Items": {
"main": [
[],
[
{
"node": "execution_id",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Schedule Trigger": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "login_details",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"retry workflow automatically": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Loop Over Items",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"When clicking \u2018Test workflow\u2019": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "login_details",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
}
}
}
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About this workflow
Retry Execution Hourly. Uses manualTrigger, n8n, httpRequest, noOp. Event-driven trigger; 13 nodes.
Source: https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows — original creator credit. Request a take-down →