Is there an easy way to add one person to multiple confluence spaces?

[Laura Briscoe]

I need to add one person to at least 20 Confluence spaces.  I'd rather not have to go into each space individually.  Is there a way to add them to multiple spaces at once in Confluence?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Laura Briscoe 

I found this KB, but it seems to be focused on granting access to all spaces.

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence/kb/how-to-bulk-update-space-permissions-to-add-a-group-or-an-user-to-multiple-spaces-at-once/

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-Cloud-Admins-articles/Manage-Confluence-space-access-in-bulk/ba-p/2674446

Otherwise I think the option would be to use the Confluence REST API.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/api-group-space-permissions/#api-wiki-rest-api-space-spacekey-permission-post

In the future you may want to consider granting access to user via User Groups instead of individually. Then you can simply add a user to the correct User Group to give them access to multiple spaces in one shot.

[Ajay _view26_]

Hi @Laura Briscoe 

As @Trudy Claspill mentioned API is the best way to go about automating it 

Use the Confluence REST API to loop through all 20 spaces and add the user programmatically:

POST https://api.atlassian.com/ex/confluence/{cloudId}/wiki/rest/api/space/{spaceKey}/permission

This can be scripted in Python/Bash to handle all 20 spaces in one run.