trying to create page with api: message "Expecting value: line 0 column 1 (char 0)" UPDATE

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Here's my command: curl -u fvila:"password" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data "@data1.json" --url http://localhost:8090/confluence/rest/api/content/ I'm was getting this response from the api: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 34604 0 34604 0 0 389k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 392k Expecting value: line 3 column 1 (char 6) Now using the Confluence password, instead of a generated token, it's as follows: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 827 100 697 100 130 18473 3445 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 22351 Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) (100% received and 100% Xferd, but error on line 1 column 1 instead of line 3 column 1 ) here's the content of data1.json: { "type":"page", "title":"new page", "space":{"key":"TC"}, "ancestors": [ {"id": "360452" }], "body":"

This is
a new page

" } When I remove the `| python -mjson.tool`, I get a full http page response, including:

francis vila_1yogkr · Answer

I've now solved my problem by using the atlassian-python-api with python, explained here:

https://github.com/atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api

I still don't know why it didn't work with curl...

I don't know whether to accept this answer as good, as it doesn't really answer the question as I asked it, and may not be useful for people who are specifically looking to make the curl command work, and had the same problem as I did.