Utilizing the Confluence REST API

Question

Hi,

I am a little confused as to how to use the Confluence API. I am trying to use the API in order to create a new page in Confluence at the web address confluence."mycompany".com and post information onto that page in a space, but I don't think I understand how to do that with this API. If anyone can help me out, that would be great. Thank you!

Davin Studer · Answer

If http://confluence."mycompany".com is how you access Confluence then yes.

Julia_965flo · Answer

To make the http request, would I be able to format the url like this:

http://confluence."mycompany".com/rest/api/content/

and is there some sort of authentication token I need? or is having the username and password enough of an authentication for the request.

Davin Studer · Answer

@Julia I guess the first question would be how familiar are you wil programming and using API's in general. Especially REST API's. If you are familiar with the process I would recommend getting the REST API Browser app from the marketplace. It is created by Atlassian and allows you to see the available rest API's. The one you want specifically is the "/rest/api/content/" end point. You want to do an http request to that API with a POST method using an authenticated user.