Trigger Airflow DAG run via stable REST API

domain: airflow.apache.org · 6 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Ensure Airflow 2.x is running with the REST API enabled; the stable API is available at /api/v1/ by default.
  2. Authenticate: obtain a session or use HTTP Basic Auth credentials passed in the Authorization header for each request.
  3. Send a POST request to /api/v1/dags/{dag_id}/dagRuns with a JSON body containing at minimum a logical_date or conf object.
  4. Inspect the response body: a 200 or 409 status with a dag_run_id field confirms the run was created or already exists.
  5. Poll GET /api/v1/dags/{dag_id}/dagRuns/{dag_run_id} until the state field is one of success, failed, or upstream_failed.
  6. Retrieve task-instance logs if needed via GET /api/v1/dags/{dag_id}/dagRuns/{dag_run_id}/taskInstances.

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