# Export Dashboard "extenally" via API **URL:** \ **Category:** Developers & API\ **Tags:** api\ **Created:** [July 18, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/export-dashboard-extenally-via-api/126581 "2024-07-18T21:02:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sbatchu0108](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@sbatchu0108](https://community.grafana.com/u/sbatchu0108)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/export-dashboard-extenally-via-api/126581/1 "2024-07-18T21:02:25Z")
I went through the forum questions, this has been asked several times but haven’t found anyone responded. Example of one such request: > [@How to export dashboard via API for external use?](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-export-dashboard-via-api-for-external-use/27886): > > Hi! When sharing a dashboard, you can choose to export it for sharing externally: [20200330\_161011] Is it possible to get the exact same JSON over the API? At the moment I use https://\/api/dashboards/uid/\, but this contains all the instance-specific configurations such as data sources. - What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? 10.x - **What** are you trying to achieve? Export dashboards externally via API to import into another grafana instance - **How** are you trying to achieve it? using API calls - What happened? Haven’t found documentation related to exporting dashboard externally. - Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with? No - Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us **exactly** what they were. We can achieve this using Grafana UI but this isn’t ideal for scaling purpose. This is bad experience for operation limiting the scalable solutions - Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL? No ---
**Author:** ![jangaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jangaraj/32/39197_2.png) [@jangaraj](https://community.grafana.com/u/jangaraj)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/export-dashboard-extenally-via-api/126581/2 "2024-07-18T21:08:58Z")
> [@sbatchu0108](#): > > Export dashboards externally via API to import into another grafana instance No, there is no official API. ---
**Author:** ![sbatchu0108](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@sbatchu0108](https://community.grafana.com/u/sbatchu0108)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/export-dashboard-extenally-via-api/126581/3 "2024-07-18T21:35:48Z")
Is this time available in future roadmap ? if not is there way to request the feature. I have seen this has been requested by several folks for couple years now, was looking if a feature is already existing so we can track the availability. ---
**Author:** ![jangaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jangaraj/32/39197_2.png) [@jangaraj](https://community.grafana.com/u/jangaraj)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/export-dashboard-extenally-via-api/126581/4 "2024-07-18T22:12:09Z")
I don’t know 🤷. Try to search in the Github repo issues/featue requests. ---
**Author:** ![allomorphy1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/allomorphy1/32/50477_2.png) [@allomorphy1](https://community.grafana.com/u/allomorphy1)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/export-dashboard-extenally-via-api/126581/5 "2024-10-23T17:03:41Z")
I am curious @sbatchu0108 Did you find any qwrkign solkutiont o export for External use. Super important I think. E ---
**Author:** ![yosiasz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/yosiasz/32/45847_2.png) [@yosiasz](https://community.grafana.com/u/yosiasz)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/export-dashboard-extenally-via-api/126581/6 "2024-10-23T18:21:51Z")
so if no official docu for this, then probably best to contribute to it? but that said you can get the dashboard via api and then save it using a scripting language of your choice. ---
**Author:** ![yosiasz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/yosiasz/32/45847_2.png) [@yosiasz](https://community.grafana.com/u/yosiasz)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/export-dashboard-extenally-via-api/126581/7 "2024-10-23T18:21:53Z")