Can I perform operation like create users, add users into groups etc in Confluence using APIs?

Sudhanshu Singh Rathore

I am trying to create user, delete user, add user into groups, remove users from groups, create group and delete group using APIs available for Confluence. But I am not able to find any API for these operation in the official documentation of Atlassian. Please suggest me an option to perform these operations in Confluence. Also, please answer why Atlassian is not providing APIs for these operations in Confluence?

 

Phill Fox

@Sudhanshu Singh Rathore 

Welcome to the Atlassian community

You will find the documentation for the actions around groups and users at

Cloud

Groups https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-group/#api-api-group-get

Users https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-users/#api-group-users

On Premise

Groups https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/7.9.1/#api/group

Users https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/7.9.1/#api/user

 

However as you will see there are differences between what is offered in Cloud and On Premise. 

You may also want to look at Atlassian Crowd for your user management for on premise which gives you much greater control of your accounts and a full set of APIs. 
https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-crowd/4.2.0/REST/

 

You can also add your voice by voting for https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-56205