How can I bulk update what spaces I am watching?

Question

For some reason I have been added as a watcher to multiple spaces and I am receiving email notifications, around 50 per day which is non essential information for me. This reduces my visibility in important email and important confluence spaces I do want to watch.

Is there a way I can bulk update what I am watching to remove all spaces at this moment?

Thanks!

Alastair Wilkinson · Answer

Hello Christian,

As others have suggested, you can write a script to remove yourself as a watcher, among many other features of ScriptRunner for Confluence Cloud.

It's also possible to set up a listener that would help maintain your sanity through automation, should this problem ever arise again.

It's not clear if you are an admin on your Confluence instance, but if so, ScriptRunner allows you to create complex automations, custom macros and custom scripts to tailor Confluence, whatever your business needs are.

Stephen Deutsch · Answer

Here's a script to remove all your space watches.

While you are logged into Confluence and have any page loaded, load your browser console (Press F12 and choose the console tab) and paste in the following code and press Enter:

const getWatchStatus = (space) => {
  $.ajax({
    url: `${contextPath}/rest/api/user/watch/space/${space.key}`,
    success: (watchData) => {
      if (watchData.watching) {
        removeWatch(space);
      } else {
        console.log(`Not watching space ${space.name}`)
      }
    }
  })
}

const removeWatch = (space) => {
  $.ajax({
    contentType: 'application/json',
    type: 'DELETE',
    url: `${contextPath}/rest/api/user/watch/space/${space.key}`,
    success: () => {
      console.log(`Space watch for space ${space.name} removed`);
    }
  })
}

It will run through all the spaces and remove any spaces you are watching. Once your console is silent for a while the process should be complete.

Michael F Kelly Jr · Answer

You can go to 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces?spaceType=watching' while logged in and then just run thru unchecking the eye "watching" icon for the ones you don't want.

Or you could build a script if you really wanted to, using the api call to get a list of spaces you're watching and then iterate over that list with a delete call.

curl --request DELETE \ --url 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/user/watch/space/{spaceKey}' \ --user 'email@example.com:<api_token>'

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/api-group-content-watches/#api-wiki-rest-api-user-watch-space-spacekey-delete