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REST API: provide a duplication option

  • March 26, 2025
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Pat_Maechler

Request:
Provide an option to easily duplicate or backup files via an API

 

Reasoning:
The REST API comes with a lot of options, but it doesn’t allow you to copy files, projects or teams.
There’s an option to download files, but not as uploadable content (i.e. as .FIG), nor is there any option to duplicate them, if they are e.g. used as a template for another team.

Possible (i.e. my) use case:
I work in an enterprise. We have a base design system with tokens that we hand out to external agencies and do some automatic checks via different APIs. I would like to automate the duplication process of these files completely. However there’s no good option to do this at the current moment.

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originalmarshmello

Pat, that’s a great idea. I just had a use case for this today and was hoping for a method of automatic template file duplication, but sadly there is no option yet.

I work at an agency where we need to duplicate a “template” consisting of our style guide and some other elements every time we gain a new client, and while we currently duplicate it manually, we should just be able to duplicate via API and make our workflow more efficient.

Figma team, please add support for this. It would make life easier :)


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