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Hi, I'm struggling to create a curl POST kicking off a create_flow_run on prefect Cloud, with parameters. Is there an example somewhere?

curl '<https://api.prefect.io>'   -X POST   -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'authorization: Bearer xxx'  --data '{

Have you seen Anna’s post <https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/CL09KU1K7/p1639414200460400?thread_ts=1639404281.441200&amp;cid=CL09KU1K7|here> ?

yes, I can get this to work. The issue is I can't add the `parameters`

was there not a util on the top of the API viewer that automatically generated curl statements at one point?

I’ve been around since March and I’ve never seen it. Will try one second

```curl '<https://api.prefect.io>'   -X POST   -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'authorization: Bearer xx'   --data '{
    "query":"mutation {create_flow_run(input: { flow_id: \"12...33\", parameters: \"{ \"input_dir\": \"tt\" }\" }) {id}}"
}'```


If I cut and paste the parameters from the graphql api it doesn't escape the outside quotes on the JSON input, but once those two "s are escaped it should be ok.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I am not able to pass args via curl.

you are welcome :smile:

<https://gist.github.com/hermesdt/60dba30471eca29fc441aae8723ccfd8>

you will have to adapt the parameters obviously

Oh wow this is worth archiving. Will make a closed issue with it later

I couldn't make it work with multi line strings for some reason

Thank you <@U02PK881XS8> - I'm still struggling TBH :confused:

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to make it work you just have wrap the graphql query into a json like this

```{"query": ..., "variables": null}```
you can have the real example from the developer console like in this screenshot

nope, I got it. I was just missing a quote.

```curl -s <https://api.prefect.io> -H "content-type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $api_key" --data-binary @- &lt;&lt;-EOF
{"query":"mutation {\n  create_flow_run(input: {\n    flow_id: \"$flow_id\",\n    parameters: \"\"\"{\n    \t\"input_dir\": \"dir_name\"}\"\"\"\n  }) {\n    id\n  }\n}\n","variables":null}
EOF```

Thank you again <@U02PK881XS8> :sunglasses: