PAGE ID RELATED ERROR

[samarth adhikari]

I am using the shell script provided in Using the Confluence REST API to upload an attachment to one or more pages | Confluence | Atlassian Documentation to attach images to a certain confluence page. However, when I run the entire script as a whole on my terminal, I am getting this error: cat: target_page_id.txt: No such file or directory.  I double checked the page id I provided and found it to be correct. What is this error due to? Please help me out

[Kishan Sharma · Accepted solution]

Hi @samarth adhikari Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

As mentioned in the document - have you created a text file named target_page_id.txt and added list of page IDs in it ? Looks like the file doesn't exist or it is not present at the path you mentioned in the script.

[samarth adhikari]

Thanks @Kishan Sharma  for your response! Yes now I created a text file and added the page ID to it and it seems to be reading it. However getting these errors for the following lines:

1) Line: ATTACHMENT_TITLE=$(curl -u $USER_NAME:$USER_PASSWORD \ -X POST \ -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck" -F "file=@${ATTACHMENT_FILE_NAME}" -F "comment=File attached via REST API" \ ${CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL}/rest/api/content/${PAGE_ID}/child/attachment 2>/dev/null \ | jq -r '.results[].title') 

Error: jq: command not found

2) if [ ${ATTACHMENT_TITLE} = ${ATTACHMENT_FILE_NAME} ]; then

Error: [: =: unary operator expected

This is the same code given on the page so not sure how these lines are erroring out? 

[samarth adhikari]

Also, can that same script be used to attach text to a page? I would like to attach test next to an image I upload in a page

[Kishan Sharma]

Great that you got it working @samarth adhikari 

Once you install jq, you should not see jq command related errors. You can download and install jq from https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ or else you can modify the code in your preferred coding language. 

For adding text to a page you will need to first get content using GET /rest/api/content and then PUT /rest/api/content/{contentId} to update the content of the page. You can refer documentation on this link.

[samarth adhikari]

Thanks kishan! All errors have disappeared now after I installed jq. But getting the message 'Failed to upload file to page <page ID>'. Is it to do with my credentials? I double checked my username, password, page ID and others.