JIRA rest API getting issues

[Alex Wade]

Hi, I want to in bulk get issues from the JIRA REST API, but can only seem to find a way to grab info 1 issue at a time, and only if i know in advance what the issue id is. is there any way to do this?

[Warren · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex

There are different ways of getting all isssues, depending on what you're after (all issues in a sprint, all issues in a project, all issues). What call are you currently using?

Warren

[Alex Wade]

not currently using any call, i just couldn't find a way to do it in the documentation. i want to be grabbing issues based off of time, say a call every hour for the previous hours issues and there changes. i assumed the audit log would hold this kind of information, but was sadly mistaken.

[Warren]

Hi Alex

Probably this call will help you then :

/rest/agile/1.0/board/{boardId}/issue

For a given board, it returns all the issues. You can then pass a JQL filter in which looks at the last hour - see documentation here

[Alex Wade]

Unfortunately, it's a jira server instance, not a cloud instance, and i can't find an equivalent call for jira server.

[Warren]

The API is independent of whether it's cloud or server and that call exists for server. Right near the top of the documentation that I linked, there's anothe rlink for the equivalent server doc

[Alex Wade]

That's awesome! thanks very much. now i realized that i actually asked the wrong question, I want to find audit logs for all the issues, to be able to track what changes and who changed stuff, etc etc. also why are there 2 separate API's for agile and the platform? i didnt know the agile one existed till now...

[Warren]

Hi Alex

Little tricks of the trade - append (&)?expand=changelog to your call and you get the history of each issue. Use ? if its the first parameter or else &.

When you say 2 separate API's, the API's are the same, but there is documentation for each.

If you're happy, please mark this as answered.

Thanks

Warren