Is it possible to use the rest apis for jira and confluence without creating an addon?

[Randy Johnson]

I am investigating the api for JIRA and Confluence. 

Is it possible to use the rest apis for jira and confluence without creating an addon?

For example:  We would like to create issues and projects and users from our internal system.

Also pull in confluence pages / data into our internal system

Thanks,

Randy

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Absolutely - the REST APIs were originally designed for using the systems externally, not for add-ons (but it makes sense to use them for add-ons as it avoids re-inventing wheels)

Have a look at the REST API tutorials and examples - you can find one-liners that use curl to poke a REST api and make it do almost anything.  Scripts or command lines that run independently without any need of add-ons or even compiled code.

https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis/jira-rest-apis/jira-rest-api-tutorials