Should we not use the Greenhopper REST API, and if not, what alternative solutions are there?

[Zack Beach]

My team has noticed that some of the functionality my company wants to get out of Jira using HTTP requests, specifically Board configuration, is only available via the Greenhopper REST API. I understand that the API is ancient at this point and has never been intended for public use.

So it looks like we probably shouldn't depend on it for our needs. But before we come to that decision, we want to know if there's any reason we should not be worried about using it. It seems obvious that we can't rely on it long term, but I'd love to be convinced otherwise.

If we absolutely shouldn't use the Greenhopper API for Board functions, what alternative solutions are there? I know about paid plugins like ScriptRunner, but my company would prefer something free if possible.

Thanks!

[Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Zack,

I can confirm that the ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud plugin is only able to use the public rest api's which Atlassian provide and mark as allowed to be used by App's in order to extract data.

I cannot comment on the Greenhopper API as I do not know about this but can confirm that Atlassian provide the Jira Software Cloud Rest API which is documented here and contains API's to interact with Jira Software Objects.

I hope this information helps.

Regards,

Kristian