Jira Issue links in Confluence page

Question

Hello everyone,

I am trying to retrieve the jira issues linked in a Confluence page by using REST API, but it seems not possible.

When I try the following URLs:

/rest/api/content/{pageId}

/rest/api/content/{pageId}/property

/rest/api/content/{pageId}?expand=metadata

/rest/api/content/{pageId}?expand=body

It doesn't appear anywhere any related info with Jira issue links a Confluence page has. Is that even possible? Because I've searched in REST API docs and didn't find anything related to it.

Thanks in advance,

Jesús

Jesús Jorge Muñoz · Answer

Hi @Gianluca,

I'm afraid there is no suitable solution using REST API in Cloud version, at least from my experience's point of view.

The only way I could get these info was writing a Node.js script that polls remote links from Jira Cloud issue, saving this info in a database/file and reading this database from Confluence macro.

Keep in mind this workaround was implemented for a very specific use case. I would try to use Jira issue macro instead.

Hope it helps.

Jesús

Gianluca_tncy5r · Answer

Hi Jesús,

Did you find any solution? Same problem here.

Kind regards,

Gianluca

Jesús Jorge Muñoz · Answer

Hello Emmanuel,

Thanks for your reply.

The solution you provided works well if I add a Jira macro to my page. However, that's not necessary if we want to have a Jira issue linked to a Confluence page.

If we link a issue to a page from Jira, no macro is added to a page and both are linked as well. Several pages of my Confluence instance are linked with this method.

Anyway, thanks for your solution! I hope it could be useful for someone.

Kind regards,

Jesús