Confluence Server API 8.5.2 Update Content Problem

[Someone]

I am using Python to connect to API. I want to find and replace some texts in pages with new texts while keeping the HTML/CSS formating.

But for Content-Type, the PUT API seems to only support "

application/json", "not "text/html" (415). The result is that all of my tags are interpreted as text and not as html tags when it updates.

So is there a way to do that?

Btw it is this API: https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/8.5.2/#api/content-update

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

@jimqian, could you provide an example of what you are trying to insert? 

[Someone]

<p>apple apple.</p><p><span style="color: rgb(206,145,120);">New Sentence</span></p><p>banana</p><p><span style="color: rgb(206,145,120);">New Sentence.</span></p><p>orange</p><p><span style="color: rgb(206,145,120);">New Sentence.</span></p><p>pineapple</p>

[Someone]

I am basically trying to change "Old Sentence." to "New Sentence." for example. While ignoring things that are neither: like "pineapple" and also keeping the original formatting: like <p>, <span, and color.

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

And it's being inserted directly as that? Are you inserting it inside of an HTML macro?

Also, are you putting in "&lt;p&gt;apple apple.&lt;/p&gt;..." are did it just render that way when you put it into the text box here?

[Someone]

No I did not use the HTML macro. What is that? Thank you very much for pointing it out!

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

@jimqian, you need to enable it at the system level. https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html

[Someone]

So basically:

1) Tell my wiki's admin to enable HTML macro and

2) Add {html} {html} around my html code when using API to put?

[Someone]

And btw would using scriptrunner instead of api circumvent this problem without having the admin enable html?

[Someone]

Nvm. And thank you Kian Stack Mumo Systems for your help!