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Script to add users to the group

Sandra Priedīte March 5, 2020

Hello,

I need to add 100 users to a group in Confluence.

Tried to find the script, which could do that, but no success.

Would appreciate a help or guidance (where to look).

Thanks!

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David at David Simpson Apps
Atlassian Partner
March 6, 2020

Whenever I've done this, I've used Confluence CLI to create a bash script.

Here's an example script:

## Copy https://marketplace.atlassian.com/download/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli/version/22 to `~/src/bob-swift/confluence-cli-2.6.0`
##
## Open `~/src/bob-swift/confluence-cli-2.6.0/confluence.sh` & swap out the following line
##
## > java -jar `dirname $0`/lib/confluence-cli-2.6.0.jar "$@"
## for...
## > java -jar `dirname $0`/lib/confluence-cli-2.6.0.jar --server http://localhost:1990/confluence --user admin --password admin "$@"
##

confluence=~/src/bob-swift/confluence-cli-2.6.0/confluence.sh

$confluence --action addUserToGroup --userId "user1" --group "my-group"
$confluence --action addUserToGroup --userId "user2" --group "my-group"
$confluence --action addUserToGroup --userId "user3" --group "my-group"
$confluence --action addUserToGroup --userId "user4" --group "my-group"
$confluence --action addUserToGroup --userId "user5" --group "my-group"
$confluence --action addUserToGroup --userId "user6" --group "my-group"

You might need a newer version of the app though. 

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