How to retrieve all Jira project releases through API?

Question

How do you retrieve all the releases through the API that are shown on the "Releases" page in Jira cloud?

e.g.

https://myproject.atlassian.net/projects/myproject?orderField=RANK&selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin%3Arelease-page&status=unreleased

The Python API has has a `version(id)` function, but it requires an ID. I need to lookup all the releases that have been created, just just a specific one.

Steve Suranie_f06pnq · Answer

Thought I would update this with how I am doing it using the Jira wrapper:

from jira import JIRA
from jira.client import ResultList
from jira.resources import Issue

rootURL = "https://xxxxxxxxxx.atlassian.net"

##############################################

# functions

##############################################

def getReleases(jira):

dictVersions = jira.project_versions("KME")

for thisVersion in dictVersions:

print(dir(thisVersion))

break

##############################################

# app starts here

##############################################

#jira setup

print(f"Getting Jira authentication...")

jiraOptions = {'server': "https://xxxxxxx.atlassian.net"}

jira = JIRA(options=jiraOptions,

basic_auth=(YOUR-USERNAME, YOUR-API-TOKEN),  # Jira Cloud: a username/token tuple

)

getReleases(jira)

For each instance of the Version class you can access this data:

'archived', 'delete', 'find', 'id', 'name', 'projectId', 'raw', 'releaseDate', 'released', 'self', 'update', 'userReleaseDate'

web · Answer

year 2021 :

this method might have changed to :
get_project_versions(self, key, expand=None)

Chris Spencer_2tc7l0 · Answer

I ended up using the Python wrapper for the API and doing:

jira = JIRA({'server': server_name}, basic_auth=(username, password))

versions = jira.project_versions(myproject_key)