I am unable to add a watcher with rest API

[Sharath Prakash]

I am trying to add watchers to an issue using rest API in python below is my code

url = 'https://my-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/%s/watchers?accountId=%s' % (
issue_id, userid)

list_watchers_url = 'https://my-domain.atlassian.net//rest/api/3/issue/%s/watchers' % issue_id

username = 'user-email'

password = '<API_TOKEN>'

add_watcher = requests.post(url, auth=(username, password))

watchers_list = []

watchers_list_resp = requests.get(list_watchers_url,
auth=(username, password))

for i in watchers_list_resp.json()['watchers']:
    watchers_list.append(i['displayName'])
print(watchers_list)

Since I use my email and API key, it only adds me as a watcher.

I am unable to set anyone else.

user_id in the URL is the account id from Atlassian and not email or name.

I also used the jira-python library and it bombs worse than this.

[dev]

watcher = JIRA::Resource::Watcher.new(client, issue: issue)
watcher.save!(user_id)

worked via jira-ruby gem