Not able to import the spaces in confluence through rest api

[Mounika S]

We are able to back up space through rest API, but we are not able to restore those space through the REST API.

And Used this url(Hostname/rest/api/backup-restore-restore/space/upload) in postman but getting 401 unauthorised error 

And we uploaded a XML zipfile in fromdata 

[Hugo Navia]

Hi Mounika,

I don't think that the appropriate API.

Check this page:

• https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/8.2.2/#api/backup-restore-createSpaceRestoreJob

Kind regards,

Hugo.

Senior Consultant | ServiceRocket

[Mounika S]

Thank you for responding nugo 

We tried all the url in above url sheet for import but still we getting 401 unauthorised error

Thanks & regards

Mounika 

[Hugo Navia]

Hi Mounika,

The 401 means that there's an error on the login. Are you trying to run the script using the basic auth or a token?

Also, which user are you using to import the space? Please note that there might be 2 types of errors:

• AUTHENTICATED_FAILED
  • The credentials are wrong, either the user name or the password.
• AUTHENTICATION_DENIED
  • Too many failed authentication attempts in a row, a CAPTCHA challenge is triggered, and this error will occur until the Failed Login Count is reset.
  • This is quite easy to happen if you're testing a script. All you need to do is to reset the failed attempts directly in Confluence or, login into Confluence with the user and resolving the CAPTCHA.

The 401 is not a bad sign anyway as it confirms you're reaching the system.

I would suggest to run a test using your basic auth credentials.

Let me know how it goes.

Kind regards,

Hugo.

[Mounika S]

Hi Hugo,

I created spaces in the source, exported them, downloaded the ZIP file, and imported it into the target. However, I am getting a 400 Bad Request error?

Thanks

Mounika.

[Hugo Navia]

There's no direct way of doing this through API but I found a document that might help you out:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-space-import-via-scripting-tools-1041075950.html