REST API create project

[Administrateur Hawaii]

Hello, 

I've been searching on this forum and Google to find a way to create projects using Rest API. I'm not familiar with all of this and I don't find solutions really easy to understand. 

Could someone explain how to do it :) ? I've generated credentials, even the base64 Basic auth for the request. 

Thank you !  a

[DPKJ · Accepted solution]

@Administrateur HawaiiFirst of all, welcome to the community!

Service Desk project are special kind of Jira Projects, so you can create Service Desk project using Jira's REST API by passing appropriate options, which all are explained in below API documentation link.

Please take a look at this - https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/?utm_source=%2Fcloud%2Fjira%2Fplatform%2Frest%2F&utm_medium=302#api-rest-api-3-project-post

[Administrateur Hawaii]

ok I followed instructions but when trying with curl I get 

curl --request POST --url 'http://mysite.net/rest/api/3/project' --user 'usermail:api key'
--header 'Accept: application/json'
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'
--data '{
"notificationScheme": 10021,
"description": "Example Project description",
"lead": "Julien",
"url": "http://mysite.atlassian.net",
"projectTemplateKey": "com.atlassian.servicedesk:simplified-internal-service-desk",
"avatarId": 10200,
"name": "TESTAPI",
"assigneeType": "PROJECT_LEAD",
"projectTypeKey": "service_desk",
"key": "TESTAPI",
"categoryId": 10120
}'

what should I change ? 

THx

[DPKJ]

@Administrateur Hawaii  Can you please elaborate on the error you are getting?

[Administrateur Hawaii]

Oh sry I forgot half of the message... 

So Curl tells me that http protocol isn't supported. I mean I did exactly as in the tutorial this is going to make me crazy. 

[DPKJ]

oh! it is simple error, replace all your 'http' instance with 'https', Jira Cloud doesn't work on http, it only work on https, and hence the error.

[Administrateur Hawaii]

It's not xD Same error https not supported or deactivated in libcurl. So I tried removing quotes from host then I get html with unauthorized error.

Then curl says : 

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: notificationScheme
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: 10021,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: description
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Example Project description,

I mean why would it think this parameters are used for host, they are not..

[DPKJ]

@Administrateur Hawaii  the code below I have added to test.sh file and excuted, and it worked for me, please check.

#!/bin/bash

curl --request POST \
--url 'https://<SITE>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project' \
--user '<EMAIL>:<TOKEN>' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"description": "My Example Project",
"projectTemplateKey": "com.atlassian.servicedesk:simplified-it-service-desk",
"name": "Example Project",
"assigneeType": "PROJECT_LEAD",
"projectTypeKey": "service_desk",
"key": "EXP",
"leadAccountId": "<MY_ACCOUNT_ID>"
}'

You can later run this file,

$ chmod +x text.sh
$ ./test.sh

[Administrateur Hawaii]

"was expecting double-quote to start field name\" 

That's what I get :/ I'm on Windows by the way :) Maybe that's why it does that. 

EDIT: Ok next step I get the error "this project template does not exist..." 

[Administrateur Hawaii]

curl --request POST \
--url 'https://yoursite/rest/api/3/project' \
--user 'usermail:<apikey>' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"description": "My Example Project",
"projectTemplateKey": "com.atlassian.servicedesk:itil-v2-service-desk-project",
"name": "Example Project",
"assigneeType": "PROJECT_LEAD",
"projectTypeKey": "service_desk",
"key": "EXP",
"leadAccountId": "<accountid>"

}'

This worked perfectly :) 

By the way to found account id : people>select account > last alphanumeric part of url ex in bold here : /aaazer1651ezgfzeg156

[DPKJ]

Great work @Administrateur Hawaii