What is the best way to set up a daily export of Confluence page to a pdf using scriptrunner jobs?

Aaron Andrade

As a new Admin for JIRA/Confluence, I am trying to figure out the path of least resistance to create a scriptrunner job to do a daily export of a Confluence page to a pdf to be saved in a shared file. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Helmy Ibrahim _Adaptavist_

Hi Justin,

You can call Confluence's export to PDF URL to get the PDF file. The request URL should be something like:

<Confluence_URL>/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=<Page_Id>

Then, you can probably use the Apache Common IO FileUtils's copyURLToFile to download the file and save it to your destination folder - See example

Ultimately, your script in Job could be something like:

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils

// Replace <Confluence_URL>
// Replace <Page_Id>
def requestUrl = "<Confluence_URL>/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=<Page_Id>"

// Update destinationPath with your shared directory and file name
def destinationPath = "PATH/FILENAME.pdf"

try {
    URL url = new URL(requestUrl)
    File destinationFile = new File(destinationPath)

    FileUtils.copyURLToFile(url, destinationFile)
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    // Handle
} catch (IOException e) {
    // Handle
}

I hope this helps! 

Cheers,
Helmy