Using Send Web Request in an Automation

Question

Hello everyone,

This is the first time I am using the Send Web Request action in an Automation.  I am struggling to fins decent documentation on using this action, for non developers.  So I am turning to the community.

I want to use the Get all ancestors of page API call to get the ancestors Id s of a page and then use the Get page by id to get the page name of the ancestors which I will then loop through to check the names of all the ancestor pages or folders and check if the Name cincluse specific text and perform an action on based on the result.

My question are,

* In the Send Web Request action information what should the keys and values be in the Headers section?  I know I should have the Authorization details, but what else should be there?
* How do I output the web request response to a Look Up table?
* Then, how would I read the contents of the table so I can run the Get page by ID information.

I know I am probably asking a lot, but be assured any assistance I receive will be appreciated.

Rhys Gottwald · Answer

Thank you very much @Kim Euker and @Darryl Lee I will give it a try

Rhys Gottwald · Answer

Thank you so much @Kim Euker and @Darryl Lee I will give it a try

Darryl Lee · Answer

Great answer @Kim Euker - my only comments:

* There's a good guide to making Web Request calls to Jira (which uses the same tokens as Confluence) here, which explains how to base64 encode your username:token to create the Authorization: Basic header
* The guide does not include Content-Type or Accept headers, which are advisable. (I cannot remember exactly which one is required.)

I agree that @Rhys Gottwald  doesn't a lookup table, but I don't think that entity property is quite right either. Entity properties write data to a page, or space. Maybe you were thinking of Variables?

I could see how defining a variable like ancestors as {{webResponse.body.results}} would then make it clearer when you use the Advanced Branch to do the "For each" loop through {{ancestors.id}}.