Does confluence data center support service account?

Kshitij Katiyar January 20, 2025

Is service account supported in confluence? If yes, can it be used to get API token(or some other authentication) to make Confluence REST API calls? 

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Marc - Devoteam
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January 20, 2025

Hi @Kshitij Katiyar 

You will need to create a Confluence account, that you want to use a as service account.

You can create an API token for this used, by then logging on to Confluence as that user.

Just as @Matthias Gaiser _K15t_ mentions as well

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Kshitij Katiyar January 20, 2025

@Matthias Gaiser _K15t_ @Nikola Perisic 
I want to create a service account so that i can generate API token to fetch data using confluence REST APIs of my confluence data center.

 

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Matthias Gaiser _K15t_
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January 20, 2025

Hey @Kshitij Katiyar

do you mean if you can create a user to be used in automations in Confluence? You can simply create a user account and create an API token for it (as documented here).

For Confluence, there's no differentiation between this service account and your other usual user accounts. Would you need anything here?

Cheers,
Matthias.

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Nikola Perisic
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January 20, 2025

Hello @Kshitij Katiyar 

Confluence has two types of users: regular ones and guests

Service users are for jira service desk projects where you have agents and customers.

That being said, you are looking for API endpoints for guests in Confluence?

In general, you have the API's for users rather than guests: https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/rest/v930/api-group-user/#api-group-user

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