command line access to hosted JIRA files
Friday, May 28, 2010
Currently I'm on a project that uses an Atlassian-hosted JIRA Studio. We put scripts and config files as wiki page (confluence) attachments, then needed to access them from remote machines via the command line, even as part of a script. JIRA has it's own security methods, not simple http auth, which would be a piece of cake. So, another solution was needed.
A page in the JIRA Community Space describes how to do this using wget with cookies. But it didn't work for me. Whether this is because we are using the hosted variant, or due to changes since that page was written, I found we had to access a different url to log in.
So here's a current working solution that firstly interactively prompts for username and password to log in and creates a cookie:
--post-data "os_username=$uname&os_password=$pass&os_cookie=true" -O /tmp/login 'http://OURDOMAIN.jira.com/rest/gadget/1.0/login'; uname=''; pass=''
Replace OURDOMAIN to make the url relevant for your site. This needs to be run only once per machine, at least until the cookie expires. The cookie file will be saved in your home dir.
Next, to retrieve any files, use:
Again replacing OURDOMAIN. Run this for each file, pasting the full url to the file to retrieve when prompted.
From these you should be able to see how to strip out the interactivity to make them scriptable, too.