Querying Jira with Python and Rest

Question

I want to pull a list of users in the jira-users group. as i understand it, it can be done with Python using restkit.

Does anyone have any examples or links that give an example of this?

thanks.

Answer 1

If somebody still need a solution, you can install JIRA rest api lib https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jira/. Just a simple example for your question:

from jira.client import JIRA

jira_server = "http://yourjiraserver.com"
jira_user = "login"
jira_password = "pass"

jira_server = {'server': jira_server}
jira = JIRA(options=jira_server, basic_auth=(jira_user, jira_password))

group = jira.group_members("jira-users")
for users in group:
    print users

Answer 2

Jira has a REST API for external queries, it's using HTTP protocol for request and responses and the response content is formed as JSON. So you can use python's urllib and json packages to run request and then parse results.

This is Atlassian's document for Jira REST API: http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/ and for example check the users API: http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#id120322

Consider that you should do authentication before send your request, you can find necessary information in the document.