I need Confluence Page ID and page owner values using REST api for a given Confluence URL. Is it possible?
Hi Srinivas,
This page has an example of how to get the page ID and creator if you have the URL (which includes the space key and page title):
Confluence REST API Examples
Please see the heading, "Find a page by title and space key".
There are no page owners in Confluence, but perhaps finding the creator will be of help.
Please let us know any follow up questions.
Thanks,
Ann
Thank you
In some case, the page is given with a url with no Title at all. It may be a tiny url. Is there anyway we can get the page Id from that, using REST API?
The way I manage around in this case (no title, no space) is to do one extra step to 'get' this tiny url content first, then extract the space, title and id from the metadata content.
They are kept in the attributes with names ajs-space-key, ajs-page-title and ajs-latest-page-id.
Here is a code snippet in Python:
import os, re, sys, json, requests# In the page URL, replace the + symbols with %20confPage = https://confluence.mydomain.com/display/TST/My%20Specific%20Pageauth = (confUsername, confPassword)headers = { 'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json' }res = requests.get(confPage) #print (res.content)matched_lines = [line for line in (res.text).split('\n') if "ajs-page-id" in line]if len(matched_lines) == 0: exit("Page ID not found")# Output line example: <meta name="ajs-page-id" content="544428643"> , need that page-idpageID = (matched_lines[0].split()[2].strip('<').strip('>').split('"')[1])print (" Page ID: " + pageID)
confPage = https://confluence.mydomain.com/display/TST/My%20Specific%20Page did not work for me instead I had to use REST end point
confPage = https://confluence.mydomain.com/display/rest/api/content/464194260
Are you sure we can use normal https url that we use in browser in script ?
Some urls do not contain a title, page id or space. The following grabs the redirect URL from those URLs and extracts the page id that can then be used to grab the page using the Python API``` python
import re, requests
confpage = "https://<MYSITE>.atlassian.net/l/cp/blahblahblahNO_TITLE_NO_ID"
auth = (<username>, <password>)headers = {"Content-type": "application/json", "Accept": "application/json"}r = requests.get(confpage, headers=headers, auth=auth)
page_id = re.search(r"\/pages\/(\d{8})", r.url).groups()[0]print(page_id)
```
I've tried the proposed way right now and it doesn't work in my case (using Confluence at cloud server): The response.url contains exactly the same page url as in the request (i.e. it being not "resolved" to something like https://Some_Site_Url/*page* ).Correspondingly the regex doesn't find anything.I would recommend to use the way described in the comment:https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Re-Can-we-get-Confluence-Page-ID-via-REST-for-a-given-pa/qaq-p/1733664/comment-id/212025#M212025Currently I don't know a way around except parsing of the page content to get its ID.
The snippet works, you have just forgotten to give auth and headers arguments in the call of requests.get() ;-)So the correct call would look like:
res = requests.get(confPage, headers = headers, auth = auth)
I would also recommend to save user & pass combination in user-specific local environment variable on the PC (where the script runs). Then from the script during runtime retrieve the values of corresponding env. variables and use them by the call of requests.get() .Also it would be good to use different names for local variables as the function-arguments (e.g. use my_auth and my_headers).Last hint: if someone likes to access the confluence using PAT (and not user & pass combination) - following could help:
my_pat = os.getenv('YOUR_NAME_OF_ENV_VARIABLE_CONTAINING_PAT')my_headers = {"Content-type": "application/json", "Accept": "application/json", "Authorization": "Bearer " + my_pat}res = requests.get(confPage, headers=my_headers )
A couple of things
<span>r = requests.get(confpage, headers=headers, auth=auth, </span>allow_redirects=<span>True)</span>
r.headers[<span>'Location'</span>]
1) No -> the url will not be redirected in browser to something different ( so it would not contain page-ID). Therefore you can't trust such method because it depends on server behavior and concrete requested page url.The solution with parsing the page content works out of the box.3) the headers doesn't contain 'Location' item (neither 'location'). I can assume that it could be filled only if redirection happens. Without redirection - the item doesn't exists. There are also no any other items in the headers containing the page-ID.So the best way to get the ID for sure - use the way described in this comment:https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Re-Can-we-get-Confluence-Page-ID-via-REST-for-a-given-pa/qaq-p/1733664/comment-id/212025#M212025(the code is working with minor fix as described in my answer to it)
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