Authenticate to JIRA API with google token?

[benb]

I use google to login into my JIRA.

Is there a way to create a login-with-google to the API and use the google token to use the API instead of using the jira api access token?

[Stephen Sifers]

Hello Ben,

There are 3 primary methods of authenticating with the Jira REST API. Those methods are as follows:

• OAuth
• Basic
• Cookie-based

Source document: Security overview

With this said, you will not be able to use your google api token to authenticate to the Jira REST API since Jira will not have a record of the google API token. While you most certainly can use google to login to Jira, you need to use the Jira API token to authenticate. If there is no record of the API token you are attempting to authenticate with within the Jira product/database then authentication will not be successful.

I hope this helps which API tokens may be used when authenticating against the API.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers