Create Clone Programmically?

Is it possible to start the cloning process programmatically using PHP?

The CLI is working for us but I’d prefer not to use shell_exec in production code.

I tried the following code but I’m getting errors that Classes do not exist, it would appear MUCD_Admin is only loaded when an admin user is present.

// Form Data

$site_domain = 'mygreatwebsite';

            $data = array(
                'source'        => 0,
                'domain'        => $site_domain,
                'title'         => $site_domain,
                'email'         => "[email protected]",
                'copy_files'    => 'yes',
                'keep_users'    => 'no',
                'log'           => 'yes',
                'log-path'      => '/app/public/wp-content/uploads/multisite-clone-duplicator-logs/',
                'advanced'      => 'hide-advanced-options'
            );
    
    $mucd_admin = new MUCD_Admin;

    $data = $mucd_admin->check_form($data);

    if (isset($data['error']) ) {
        $form_message['error'] = $data['error']->get_error_message();
    }
    else {
        $form_message = MUCD_Duplicate::duplicate_site($data);
    }