Download JIRA attachment files with Python

Question

I need help with downloading Jira attachment files with Python

Darryl Lee · Accepted Answer

Hi @Mustafa Mousa -

Can you provide a little more context?

Is this part of some kind of build script/automation? Do you want all the attachments if the script is given the input of a single issue key? Or are you trying to do a bulk download of attachments for the whole server or a single project?

And have you already tried writing a script and are running into issues?

Here's a good example using the python requests module (not any Jira-specific modules):

http://migueleonardortiz.com.ar/python/download-jira-attachments-with-python/1334

And while this tutorial from @Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_ is Cloud-specific, the general idea also applies to Jira Server. You could get the list of attachments from Jira's REST API by hitting a URL like https://yourjiraserver/rest/api/2/issue/ISSUE-24090 and then parse the JSON to find attachments and get the URLs for each attachment for downloading.