how to get full content body (html) using confluence REST API ?

[Sameer V]

Example API call to get content  - https://<domain>/rest/api/content/12345

I'm not able to find out a way to get the whole content body.  Although, this

{"webui":""...}

gives the URL to get the actual content on the browser, is there no way to get the actual html content in the JSON response itself?

[Lei Wang · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You could read the content of a page with the body expanded.

https://<domain>/rest/api/content/12345?expand=body.storage

Please refer to the Confluence REST API examples for more details: https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-rest-api-examples/

[Sameer V]

That works. Thanks @Lei Wang!

[Arjun s]

That was very helpful!

[Rigin Oommen]

Awesome. 👏 this worked for me

[Kimberly Cook]

How can you search for the content ID?

[Pranesha Bunsee]

If you want the page ID, go to Tools --> Page Information on the particular page you are interested in. You should see the page (content) ID shown in the URL when you do this.

[Rafael Ruiz]

I have a question: how can we push HMTL to body?

[Mahmoud Turki]

thank you

[Cliff Berg]

It no longer works. Seems like:

1. The ability to programmatically (using the Forge API) to access a prior version of a page no longer works.

2. The ability to obtain the _content_ of a prior version of a page, even by entering the URL query in a browser, no longer works.

E.g., this does not work using Forge:

const vresp = await api.asApp().requestConfluence(route`/wiki/rest/api/content/7208974/version/20??expand=body.storage`, {

headers: {

'Accept': 'application/json'

}

});

...

and neither of these work in a browser:

Old API:

https://agile2academy.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/7208974/version/37/?expand=body.storage

(does not show the body.storage.value - i.e. the content of the page)

...

New API does not seem to have a way to retrieve page content for prior page versions. Docs are here:https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v2/api-group-page/#api-pages-id-get

So I tried this:

https://agile2academy.atlassian.net/wiki/api/v2/pages/7208974/versions/37/expand=body.storage

(produces page not found)

[Lei Wang]

Hello @Cliff Berg

Thank you for the update. The API is designed for Confluence Server and Data Center, and not for Confluence Cloud. I have performed a quick test and can confirm that it is still functional in Confluence Server/DC 7.19 LTS.

Best,

Lei

[Cliff Berg]

Thanks for the reply. That clarifies things.

Does that mean that for Confluence Cloud, there is no way to obtain the actual content of an earlier version of a page?

I just tried these in a browser, and the body field that is returned is an empty string (but the actual body should not be empty):

https://agile2academy.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/7208974/?body-format=atlas_doc_format&version=37

https://agile2academy.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/7208974/?body-format=storage&version=37

I also tried this,

https://agile2academy.atlassian.net/wiki/api/v2/pages/7208974/versions/37/

but the response does not even have a body field.

Thanks.

[Olexiy Kovtunenko]

@Cliff Berg what worked for me was using this: 

...../wiki/api/v2/pages/1234567?body-format=ATLAS_DOC_FORMAT

[Priten Vora]

Thank you, that helped a lot!