this is doable today with a list comprehension like this https://outerbounds-community.slack.com/archives/C02116BBNTU/p1622502077119500?thread_ts=1622489338.118000&cid=C02116BBNTU

but given that this is not obvious at the first sight and the need is pretty common, it might make sense to have a top-level convenience function like

find_run(flow, {'artifact': 'value'})

that essentially wraps the above list comprehension

I am curious to hear if anyone here has other use cases for

find_run

one concern is the performance of such function: The list comprehension is sequential so it fetches artifacts from S3 sequentially, which can be slow. It would be much more efficient to use

S3.get_many

to parallelize the operation but it makes the implementation a bit more involved. On the other hand, parallelization/performance is a great reason for providing such convenience function since no one wants to do that by hand.