How to use REST API Browser?

[Jirong Hu]

I've installed the REST API Browser, but don't understand this document: https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/developer-tools/using-the-rest-api-browser

What does it mean by "run locally"? What does this step do? Our JIRA server is running on Linux.

1. Run atlas-run or atlas-debug or atlas-run-standalone as usual. The Atlassian application (JIRA, Confluence, or any of the others) will be installed with the REST API Browser plugin enabled.

The problem is when try the browser, click on "api/2/user" link on the left, and enter my own id as the username. Nothing happens after I click the Send button. The browser URL shows: https://sitjira.cppib.ca:9443/plugins/servlet/restbrowser#/resource/api-2-user

I am accessing the above URL from my own Windows workstation. I am new to REST API.

Thanks

Jirong

[David Yu]

Not sure why this is not documented in the primary docs. After you install, visit:

https://your-jira/plugins/servlet/restbrowser#/

[ernests lipko]

Thank you! I was desperate to find it.

Was it really so hard for them to write it in the first place in the docs?

[Timothy Harris]

I get a dead 404 page when i use this.

[Timothy Harris]

Never mind. I needed to instalæl the plugin. Thought it was default installed in latest versions. 

[Boris Berenberg]

You don't need to do the Run Locally section. You are accessing it at the right URL already. I think what you need to do is understand REST a bit more. Take a look at: http://www.restapitutorial.com/ and then at: https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/api-reference/jira-rest-apis/jira-rest-api-tutorials