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How to Trigger Airflow DAG Using REST API
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Sometimes you want to programmatically trigger an airflow DAG. Airflow allows you to enable this functionality when needed. In this article, I will do a simple demo.
1. Enable REST API in Airflow
In the config, enable authentication and set it to basic authentication. I have version 3.8 of the docker-compose document and version 2.6.2 of airflow. In my docker-compose.yaml file, basic authentication is already set. Set your api config parameter auth_backends to airflow.api.auth.backend.basic_auth.
2. Build your POST request
I’m using Postman in this demo for the API requests. Define headers as follows:
Note that for basic authentication you need to encode username and password to base64 which is why the value of authorization key in the headers is fill in that way. I used a free online tool at base64encode.org to generate the encoding for these demo credentials. The format for username and password should be “username:password”:
