Getting an confluence page's version through specific API call.

Sabin Linden October 30, 2017

While trying to figure out how to grab the version of a Confluence page via the API I came across another answer on this board that suggested the following kind of page to check for the version.

http://localhost:1990/confluence/rest/api/content/2064387?expand=version

Sure enough, using this format I was able to grab the version of a specific page. However, I noticed something rather odd if I try to get this through other means.

See, I'm trying to get the ID and version of a page via knowing the space and title of the page, via a call like this:

http://localhost:1990/confluence/rest/api/content?title=pageTitle&spaceKey=SPACEKEY

Which returns a json value that has the page ID, like I need, but version comes up... completely blank! Nowhere to be found. Is there a good reason for this or is it a bug? As is, I have to basically call the API twice to get all the information I need for the script I'm writing and that seems kinda silly.

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Alexey Matveev
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October 30, 2017

Hello, you need to add expand=history parameter

http://localhost:1990/confluence/rest/api/content?title=pageTitle&spaceKey=SPACEKEY&expand=history

 

Sabin Linden October 31, 2017

Tried that but version is still blank, as are the previousVersion and nextVersion variables in the history dict.

Sabin Linden October 31, 2017

Ah, however, if I add &expand=version to the line, it does expand version out which includes the "number" variable containing what I need! That's fix enough for me. Thanks for leading me in the right direction!

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