Pulling the number of search results to a web page

[Kane Short]

Hi There,

I'm a total novice when it comes to API's so I apologise in advance.

I am trying to do a search of jira with certain filters (name on ticket, a label and the status). Then I want a numeric value of the number of results.

Also, I want to make this automatically run every half hour on a webpage.

I literally have no idea how to do this (even after looking at the documentation).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks (:

[Warren · Accepted solution]

Hi Kane

I'll give some advice for the first part, to get you started. An assumption I'll make is that you're on Jira cloud, but it would be very similar for server. The API documentation is here. All API calls take the form https://yourURL.atlassian.net/rest/api/

If you're searching across multiple projects, you would probably use the "search" api, so

https://yourURL.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/search

If you're searching within a project / board, there are more relevant calls in the documentation.

Parameters are passed in with the standard notation of ? for the first one then & for each further one.

For your filters, it's probably

jql=assignee=name AND labels=FE_Dev AND status="In Progress"

so that total call would be

https://yourURL.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/search?jql=assignee=name AND labels=FE_Dev AND status="In Progress"

How you get this to run every half an hour may not be that relevant for this forum, but more for a coding site