Bearer token based authentication in JIRA-Python API

[abhay]

I am trying to use jira python library to initialise JIRA object using bearer token based authentication. I didn't find anything in the documentation.

[Evgenii · Accepted solution]

Hi, @abhay 

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

In my python script, when I connect to Jira, I use next code:

# Load environment variables from .env file
jira_base_url = config("JIRA_BASE_URL")
jira_api_token = config("JIRA_API_TOKEN")
jira_api_email = config("JIRA_API_EMAIL")

# Jira API endpoint for searching issues
jira_api_url = f"{jira_base_url}/rest/api/3/search"
base64_credentials = base64.b64encode(
    f"{jira_api_email}:{jira_api_token}".encode()
).decode()
headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Basic {base64_credentials}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
}

Example of function, which I use to get issues by JQL query

def get_jira_issues(query, max_results=50):
    issues = []
    start_at = 0

    while True:
        params = {
            "jql": query,
            "fields": ["comment"],
            "startAt": start_at,
            "maxResults": max_results,
        }
        response = requests.get(jira_api_url, headers=headers, params=params)

        if response.status_code == 200:
            data = response.json()
            issues.extend(data["issues"])

            # Check if there are more issues to fetch
            total = data["total"]
            start_at += max_results
            if start_at >= total:
                break
        else:
            logger.error(f"Error fetching Jira issues: {response.text}")
            raise Exception(f"Error fetching Jira issues: {response.text}")

    return issues 

[Evgenii]

As an alternative variant you can use python library to work with Jira

It's  atlassian-python-api library, that can work with different products
https://atlassian-python-api.readthedocs.io/

from atlassian import Jira

jira = Jira(url = "https://jira_url/", token = jira_token)

[abhay]

Thanks

[abhay]

Hey @Evgenii thanks for the reply
So you are using the requests library directly. I was asking with respect to jira pypi library in particular. Although I found a way to do it:

headers = {{

    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Authorization": f'Bearer {{auth["accessToken"]}}',
}}

jira = JIRA(
    server=auth["url"],
    options={{'server': auth["url"]}}
)

jira._session.headers.update(headers)