Launch a Confluence search from an external application by launching a URL

[Gerry H]

I'd like to be able to open a search on Confluence by launching a URL, it might look something like:

https://tools.mycompany.ca/confluence?search="Winnie the Pooh"

Possible? 

[Thiago Masutti · Accepted solution]

Hi @Gerry H 
Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

That type of integration isn't available out-of-the-box, but you could certainly develop something on top of the Confluence REST API to accomplish that.

You could have your external application linked to Confluence using OAuth and then rely on /rest/api/search to provide search results from Confluence without leaving the current application.

A more simple solution would be opening a new tab/window with the search string pointing to your Confluence instance.

<Confluence-URL>/dosearchsite.action?cql=siteSearch&queryString=my+search+string

I hope that helps.

Kind regards,
Thiago Masutti

[Craig Castle-Mead]

Adding to Thiago's reply - if you go to https://tools.mycompany.ca/confluence/dosearchsite.action - you can use the left hand side filters to generate a more targetted set of search results - eg: it'll show that to see only Pages updated in the last week mentioning Winnie the Pooh, you can pass the query string /dosearchsite.action?cql=siteSearch+~+"winne+the+pooh"+and+lastmodified+>%3D+now(%27-1w%27)+and+type+%3D+"page"&queryString=winne+the+pooh

Add &includeArchivedSpaces=true to include archived spaces

CCM

[Gerry H]

Awesome CCM, thanks!

[Gerry H]

Thiago, I like your second answer a lot better than the first. My boss is expecting me to spend a hour on this, not hours or days.