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Hi everyone — I’m trying to use the Prefect API to “clone” a flow and give it a different name, does anyone know if that’s possible at all ?

My thinking is to try and get the existing flow “build json” using the API, modify it with the new flow name and then running “prefect register” off that json

I think editing the JSON is pretty ugly but I think it can be done. If you already have the flow definition in Python you might be able to do something like.
```with Flow(..) as flow:
    ....

flow2 = copy.deepcopy(flow)
flow2.name = ...```
If you are you the JSON, have you run into a specific thing? I think it should work. Just query for the `serialized_flow` specifically in the GraphQL API

I won’t have access to the python definition, but I had a look at the serialized_flow and is indeed an ugly solution to modify that — I’ll think of something else, thanks!