Is there a rest api to import a csv file of issues into jira?

Question

Greetings,

All I want to do is import issues with a csv file.

I have looked into this for a while now and not found a solution.

Bob Swift's command line tools can do it but we are not allowed to install the server side and we do not have hands on access to the server.

I am looking at Postman as a solution. A great curl command would be awesome.

But does jira have an api to import a csv?

Thanks,

Lonn

Lonn James Holiday · Answer

Hi Ravi,

We expect to update a few hundred issues on a regular basis. I see there is not remote method for csv so I am now looking into exporting and importing json files.

Now I must ask the community another question.

"Why does jira with the json importer not import the very same file it exported?"

Thank you,

Lonn

Lonn James Holiday · Answer

Thank you, Santwana.

I have seen that article. I want to handle multiple issues on a regular basis. I may be able to do what I need to do using json file.

However I see jira will not import the very same json file it exports. Even if it is unchanged. This has me baffled so I am going to ask the community another question.

Lonn

Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_ · Answer

Hi @Lonn James Holiday

I don't think it is possible. CSV importer in Jira is already quite configurable with all the mappings and making sure the format is correct. It will be hard I guess to do all that with REST API.

May be parsing the CSV first in the language of your choice and then feeding it to Jira? but again how many issues are you trying to import - few hundred, thousand or millions?

Ravi