<p dir="auto"><strong>Description</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">A way to manipulate <code class="notranslate">execution_date</code>, or triggering backfills/catchups from the Web GUI is proposed.</p>

<p dir="auto"><strong>Use case / motivation</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Web UI and the CLI interface have separate privileges and responsibilities. CLI is mostly geared towards maintenance of the Airflow system itself - while the Web GUI is intended for users using Airflow to manage tasks. Backfill is aligned with the second more closely - it makes no sense that it's not available through the web interface.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/AnkurChoraywal/airflow-backfill-util">The sentiment is shared by multiple users.</a></p>

<p dir="auto"><strong>Are you willing to submit a PR?</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">No.</p>

<p dir="auto"><strong>Related Issues</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Not that I know of.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">Description</h3>
<p dir="auto">I'd like to be able to trigger backfills remotely through a REST API endpoint - there's already support for triggering a single DAGRun so why not multiple?</p>
<p dir="auto">This would involve creating a new endpoint (maybe under <code class="notranslate">/dags/&lt;dag_id&gt;/backfills</code>) which would handle the same parameters as the <code class="notranslate">airflow dag backfill</code> CLI command.</p>
<p dir="auto">A coworker and I would be happy to build out this functionality, but I'd like to collect input from the community and core maintainers before we start.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">Use case/motivation</h3>
<p dir="auto">We use a custom CLI built on top of the Airflow REST API for doing some basic Airflow operations via from the command line - It would be awesome if we could include support for triggering backfills remotely.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">Related issues</h3>
<p dir="auto"><em>No response</em></p>
<h3 dir="auto">Are you willing to submit a PR?</h3>
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<h3 dir="auto">Code of Conduct</h3>
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<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" checked=""> I agree to follow this project's <a href="https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md">Code of Conduct</a></li>
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