How to get issues from Jira projects using expand=changelog?

[Nicolau Rodrigues]

Hello experts, 

I am ingesting issues data using Jira Rest API, that is being requested from a python code.

I am using the search API to bring the data I need:

https://mycompanyjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search

 When I assembly my 'get' request without the "expand=changelog", everything works OK. This is the jql I used to connect (with no changelog):

querystring = {"jql": "project=" + project_name, "startAt": startPoint}

 However, trying to get the changelog, I get the following error back from the API:

 "errorMessages": ["Field 'expand' does not exist or you do not have permission to view it."]

The jql I used to connect using the change log is the following: 

querystring = {"jql": "project=" + project_name + "&expand=changelog", "startAt": startPoint}

I am using HTTP GET method to request:

response = requests.get(url=url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

And the final URL, before requesting, looks like this:

https://mycompanyjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=project%3PROJECTKEY%26expand%3Dchangelog&startAt=0

Do you think it can be a permission issue? I mean, does Jira require specific authorization to bring changelog? Or am I making any mistake assembling the request?

Thanks in advance,

Nicolau 

[Mehmet A _Bloompeak_]

Hi @Nicolau Rodrigues ,

In your final url, expand is part of jql. Instead it must be a request query parameter as below.

https://mycompanyjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=project%3PROJECTKEY&startAt=0&expand=changelog

[Andrii Polishchuk]

On NodeJs you can just add array with expand

[Nir Haimov]

Hi @Nicolau Rodrigues 

I did not tested it but as the error says "expand" not supported in the "jql search" API endpoint.

I do know that "expand" work with "issue" API endpoint.

That means, get list of your issues with 

https://mycompanyjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search

Than iterate the list of issues and for each issue run:

/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}?expand=changelog

and that will return you for each issue, all its data with the changelog as you wanted