Can I get my account id offline or do I have to work with a link then?

[Tzim]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently learning to work with Jira Rest API.  Is there any way that I can get my account id when running on localhost? I want to work with some user data. In the documentation, the account id is used (https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/#api-group-User-properties). And also, how to I get the account id of a user when the URL only mentions their name?

[Krister Broman _Advania_ · Accepted solution]

Look in the Server Rest documentation instead for your localhost environment, my guess is that one of the three sections below will give you the data you search for. 

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.4.2/#api/2/myself

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.4.2/#api/2/user

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.4.2/#api/2/user/properties

[Cristian Rosas [Tecnofor] · Accepted solution]

Hi Tzim, you are looking at Jira CLoud REST API, not Jira server:

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.4.2/