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I want to read JIRA issue data with scoped token but getting 404

Tomas Hajek _DHL IT Services_
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November 14, 2025

Hello colleagues,

I am using REST API v3 on Jira cloud platform.

endpoint: /rest/api/3/issue/{issueKey}

to authenticate, I generated two apikeys in my account:

key1: One non-scoped, full access

key2: scoped with read:jira-work (as per documentation in the API here: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-get )

I use Postman. I use basic authentication with username=my email, password=key1 or key2

When I use the full key1, I get the data.

When I use the scoped key2, I get 404 refusal.

I am digging through whole internet for few hours now and just cannot get what is wrong... Anybody got similar experience?

Thanks a lot!!

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Mikael Sandberg
Community Champion
November 14, 2025

What domain are you using when accessing the endpoint? Scoped tokens have to use api.atlassian.com domain instead of yourdomain.atlassian.net, and for Jira the URL should look like this:

https://api.atlassian.com/ex/jira/<cloudid>/<api>

Mikael Sandberg
Community Champion
November 14, 2025

Btw, the documentation for it is under Service Accounts, but the scoped domains applies to any scoped API token, and you can find the documentation here.

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