Find out current version - API/JSON/RSS

Sinan Polat_9x232a

I have Confluence (and actually more Atlassian products) running on my server. I want to easily - using a script - read out which version of Confluence is currently running.

 

I can do that by browsing to the login page and extract it from the HTML code, but perhaps there is a better way to do it?

Does Confluence by default expose a RSS/JSON feed?

Stephen Sifers

Hello Sinan,

There is an API call which will return system information for the Confluence server. The result will also be in a JSON format which will make parsing it out much easier.

Here is an example:

curl -u user:password -X GET http://confluence.server.com/rest/applinks/1.0/manifest

Result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<manifest><id>0000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000000</id>
<name>Confluence</name>
<typeId>confluence</typeId>
<version>6.13.0</version>
<buildNumber>9942</buildNumber>
<applinksVersion>0.0.0</applinksVersion>

Alternatively, there is a simple un-authentication solution to getting the version. If you simply run a CURL call again Confluence, it will return its version within the results.

Example:

CURL https://confluence.server.com/rest/api

Results:

<...>
<li class="print-only">Printed by Atlassian Confluence 6.13.0</li>
<...>

From the results, you could write a script to parse out the version.

This should get you the version for Confluence.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers