How admins can view pages and attachments even if restricted?

[Sebastien Ribiere]

Hello,

We have problems with our 90 GB confluence cloud instance, and we have to find where space is used. So we developed a script which will get each attachment of each space and give us a view of where the space is used.

But we saw that this script has a flaw : even if I am site-admin, I can't view attachments in restricted pages.

There are almost 20 GB I can't tell where it is used because of this problem.

How can I bypass this restriction as a site-admin?

[Niclas Sandstroem]

You need to add yourself to the restriction. https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/REST/latest/#content/{id}/restriction 

The same applies when manually viewing pages as admin. 

Good luck!