Rest Api to add user in Confluence group

Spatel_g5qbol

I'm totally new to rest api and I do not know where to start. But after some googling I tried this in powershell

curl --request POST \
>> --url 'https://confluenceURI/rest/api/group/user?name={name}' \
>> --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
>> --data '{
>> "accountId": "{---}"
>> }'

But it's giving me an error

At line:2 char:5
+ --url 'https://confluenceURI/rest/api/gr ...
+ ~
Missing expression after unary operator '--'.
At line:2 char:5
+ --url 'https://confluenceURI/rest/api/gr ...
+ ~~~
Unexpected token 'url' in expression or statement.
At line:3 char:5
+ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+ ~
Missing expression after unary operator '--'.
At line:3 char:5
+ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+ ~~~~~~
Unexpected token 'header' in expression or statement.
At line:4 char:5
+ --data '{
+ ~
Missing expression after unary operator '--'.
At line:4 char:5
+ --data '{
+ ~~~~
Unexpected token 'data' in expression or statement.
At line:4 char:9
+ --data '{
+ ~
The Data section is missing its statement block.
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingExpressionAfterOperator

Our confluence is on server. Any help would appreciated. 

JimmyVanAU

Hi,

There isn't an official REST API endpoint to add users to groups unfortunately. See https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/7.9.1/ for what is available.

With respect to curl, I'm guessing your query came from another website. It looks like the >> indentation is confusing Powershell. Try

curl --request POST \
--url 'https://confluenceURI/rest/api/group/user?name={name}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{ \
"accountId": "{---}" \
}'

I've also added some further \ to the last two lines.

Cheers, Jimmy