I am trying to access Rest API on confluence to retrieve information

Venneesha

Trying to replicate the steps in 

Basic auth for REST APIs .

$Text = ‘your_email@domain.com:your_user_api_token’ $Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Text) $EncodedText = [Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes) $EncodedText

throws error '$Text' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

'$Bytes' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

'$EncodedText' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I am using Windows.

please let me know what am I doing wrong?

Not sure if i need some extra access or permissions.

Andrii Maliuta

Hello @Venneesha ,

The code looks a little strange. Do you want to use the Powershell script to access data via Confluence REST API?

If yes, you can save the script as .ps1 file and run it with Pshell cli tool:

'confluence.ps1'

$Text = ‘your_email@domain.com:your_user_api_token’ 

$Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Text) 

$EncodedText = [Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes) 

$EncodedText

On WIndows just open Powershell and run it

.\confluence.ps1

 On Linux (Ubuntu)

pwsh confluence.ps1