confluence file store and api

[Chag]

Does confluence have an api or directory location where I can send a bunch of documents in the amount of 500 and they will show up in the space I want? Or do I have to upload them manually? Looking to use an automatically way instead of uploads from the page itself.

[Justin Justin]

John, maybe AppFusions' integrations with Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Egnyte, or Alfresco (or what flavor would you like - email info@appfusions.com) would be of interest. You can leave them organized as they are in one of those repositories, but work with them in Confluence (preview, link, embed in pages, download, edit, navigate embedded file folders, etc.) See details about these packaged integrations and videos at www.appfusions.com.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, the attachments are internalised and have extra data included.  

If you want to add files to Confluence and have them appear, you'd need to copy them to the server, name them appropriately, and push data into some of Confluence's tables in the database (for which you need Confluence offline, and with a proven backup before you do it).  In other words, you must use the API in some way. 

One way to use the API is "use the web UI" - i.e. the manual upload of each file.  However, that's not the only way.  The other options I'd look at for the API are:

• https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+REST+API
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Cloud/Uploading+Data+via+WebDAV
• Look at the file management addons in the marketplace (I've not really looked myself, so I've not got any particular recommendations or knowledge there)
• Look at the scripting addons in the marketplace (I've used Bob Swift's CLI for this sort of stuff in the past)