Downloading attachments via jira module in python

Dickson

In http://pythonhosted.org/jira/ it states you can get the attachment resource via the call: JIRA.attachment(id)

However, once you get the resource, is there a way to actually download the attachment? 

Wlosin

I used a method as such

from jira import JIRA
jira = JIRA(auth=('<username>','<password>'), options={'server': <URL>})
jira_issue = jira.issue(<issue>, expand="attachment")

for attachment in  jira_issue.fields.attachment  :    
    image = attachment.get()    
    jira_filename = attachment.filename    
    with open(jira_filename, 'wb') as f:        
        f.write(image) 

 Other authentication methods also exist, for example I used OAuth. More info on that can be found here.

It's worth noting that I couldn't download files with a space in the attachment's file name using the jira module and had to update my code to use the attachment's .inter_content() attribute and iterate through the content.

 #Write the file to the issue_path directory
 with open(jira_filename, 'wb') as f:
     #if there is a space in the filename (attachment.get() crashes in this case)
     if " " in jira_filename:
         for chunk in attachment.iter_content(chunk_size=512):
             if chunk: # filter out keep-alive new chunk
                 f.write(chunk)
     else:
         #Getting the file from the jira server and writing it to the current directory
         image = attachment.get()
         f.write(image)