creating confluence pages programmatically

[Petr Zhura]

I need to create a large amount of confluence pages, which describe an api (dozens of services and hundreds of pages). Trying to do this by hand makes me crazy. 

I want to implement a script which would do it for automatically. The script would fetch a domain model for services, create appropriate markup and post it using confluence rest api.

As far as I understood, confluence uses custom markup for page content. Certainly, I could create a template for each element like paragraph or table und render markup based on my teamplates. But instead I would rather like to use an Java api for its creation.

Does something similar exist?

[James Richards]

Hi Petr,

Using a Java  for this would probably be way too much for what you're trying to achieve.

There are 2 ways you can do this, one would be to use a template, where you can have fields that populate the data or create pages with a REST call.

For creating a template, you'd follow the steps here

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-template-296093779.html

And for creating pages with a REST call, which I think would be better for you since it sounds like you have complex pages with content that already exists somewhere, try this document as a start

• https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-rest-api-examples/

Remember you need to use the XHTML markup to create the pages. So, I'd suggest creating an example page and then go to ... > View Storage Format to see what it looks like, and then use that to create the page you want with the REST call.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, James