Bulk search/replace text within Confluence pages under specified parent page.

[Daisuke Niwa]

Hello,

We would like to search and replace texts within Confluence pages under specified parent page.

Let's say we've got following page structure,

Parent page

--Child page 1 (contains text "a")

--Child page 2 (contains text "a")

--Child page 3 (contains text "a")

We would like to replace text "a" within child page 1 to child page 3 with text "b" at once.

Is there any remote API available to achieve this, or do we need to create plugin for this purpose? Please advise.

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa

[Renjith Pillai · Accepted solution]

I can think about using the Confluence CLI and a bit of scripting to do it. Download the content as wiki, do search and replace and upload it back.

[Daisuke Niwa]

Thank you for your response. I went through the documentation of Confluence CLI but could not find a method to replace certain character.

https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation

Is it possible for you to let me know which method I should use?

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa

[Daisuke Niwa]

Actually, "storePage" methold supports "findReplace" parameter which finds and replaces text within Confluence page.

[Daisuke Niwa]

Thanks, that helps!

[Renjith Pillai]

Ah no, I meant to write a script which uses CLI. Do this in the script: 1. Use CLI with getPage option first, it will write a file 2. Do the replace operation in a file, there are famous perl one liners for that or use sed 3. Use CLI with storePage option and upload back to Confluence.

[Renjith Pillai]

Ah great. That makes it easy.