Can I get my account id offline or do I have to work with a link then?

Question

Hello everyone,

I'm currently learning to work with Jira Rest API.  Is there any way that I can get my account id when running on localhost? I want to work with some user data. In the documentation, the account id is used (https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/#api-group-User-properties). And also, how to I get the account id of a user when the URL only mentions their name?

unknown · Accepted Answer

Hi Tzim, you are looking at Jira CLoud REST API, not Jira server:

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.4.2/

Krister Broman _Advania_ · Accepted Answer

Look in the Server Rest documentation instead for your localhost environment, my guess is that one of the three sections below will give you the data you search for.

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.4.2/#api/2/myself

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.4.2/#api/2/user

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.4.2/#api/2/user/properties