Display Contents of Confluence Page in another Instance

[Haddon Fisher]

A while back I realized that every time I'd start working at a new organization, I'd spend hours re-writing the same help docs over and over. I ended up setting up my own Confluence to store these, but now I've hit the logical conclusion of this madness: getting the content back into the new organization's Confluence.

Does anyone have a method to dynamically include the contents of a page in Confluence instance A on a page within Confluence instance B?

• Instance A is fully open to the public so there shouldn't be any authentication issues.
• I'd prefer not to pull in the navbar or other not-content if possible - just the body of the page.
• I can't purchase an add-on for this in my "B" corporate instance; I'd _consider_ one for my personal instance, but I'm hoping to avoid needing to pay for this.
• IFraming does not work - Confluence won't let you do this natively across domains, and the control for it is not exposed in Cloud.

[Kristian Klima · Accepted solution]

Hi @Haddon Fisher 

You can - but you need an app for that.

Space Sync for Confluence by Ricksoft allows you to set up one, bi, or omnidirectional syncing between/among spaces on multiple Confluence sites.

Yes, it's an app. It's free for up to 10 users but it must be installed on both the source and the target site.

Other than that, you only option is an Export > Import routine.

[Haddon Fisher]

Thanks Kristian Klima and Mia Tamm _Simpleasyty_ for the responses!

I am going to take a look at Space Sync for Confluence but if it needs to be installed on both then it's probably a dealbreaker. Was going to say the same thing as you Kristian - I know about K15t's Backbone Issue Sync, but didn't think they had a Confluence option.

The workaround I found is to paste in the link and use the "embed" display option to make the preview window as large as possible. It's ugly as sin, but it does technically do what I need it to.

[Kristian Klima]

@Haddon Fisher 

Backbone sync is a Jira app only.

[Mia Tamm _Simpleasyty_]

Hey @Haddon Fisher 👋

Sadly, there’s no native way in Confluence Cloud to embed the body of a page from instance A into a page on instance B, even if the source page is public (iFrame embedding is blocked and the include-page macros only work within the same Confluence site).

Without any add-ons, the closest workaround I’ve seen is:

• Use the public URL of page A
• Pull the content via REST API (e.g. using /rest/api/content/{id}?expand=body.storage)
• Paste it into a page in instance B using something like a Scheduled Automation rule or a simple script, so it refreshes periodically
  …but I realise that isn’t exactly lightweight 😅

If you are open to an app, you could look at something like Content Sync (by K15t) which is designed specifically to duplicate or mirror pages across Confluence instances (Cloud↔Cloud or Cloud↔Server). It handles keeping content updated too.

Happy to send that link if helpful or if you’d prefer to stay script-only, I can share an example REST API call as well.

— Mia Tamm from Simpleasyty

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Mia Tamm _Simpleasyty_ 

a) There's no such app as Content Sync by K15t. 

b) There is Backbone Issue Sync but it's for Jira, not Confluence.