"Find and Replace" operation in Confluence

[jforristal]

Is it possible to perform a mass "find and replace" operation in Confluence, similar to using "Control + F" and replace, to update all instances of a specific text (e.g., "Company A") with a new text (e.g., "Company B") across the entire platform?

Our company is undergoing a minor rebranding effort, which involves renaming some internal products from "A" to "B". We need to find all occurrences of "A" and replace them with "B" in a bulk update. 

Request

We are looking for a way to:

1. Find all instances of the old text ("A") across Confluence.
2. Perform a bulk update to replace all occurrences of "A" with the new text ("B").

Thank you in advance for any assistance or guidance provided.

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

@Kristian Klima mentioned our app Find and Replace by Easy Apps.

It's one of a suite of content editing tools in Space Content Manager.

You can use a script as well if your use case is not too complicated and not to often. 

[Hyrum Steffensen {Appfire}]

Hello @jforristal ,

This could be done with a script using Power Scripts for Confluence. For example:

string cql = "Space=DEMO";
number [] pages = selectPages(cql);
for (number p in pages) {
    %p%.content = replace(%p%.content, "A", "B");
}

If you would like to use some REGEX, you could also use the matchReplace() function. I am a support engineer with Appfire, so feel free to ask for additional help with the script. Here is a link to our support portal:

https://appfire.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals

Regards,

Hyrum

[jforristal]

Thanks guys

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @jforristal 

There is an app for that :) 

• Find and Replace by Easy Apps which I used to replace a product name in a space (two devices shared the 80% of the docs, so I just duplicated the space and ran the app... worked like a charm).
• Link Management by Lively Apps which is focused on replacing elements of links

Chances are you'll find another app(s) out there.

[Evgenii]

Hi, @jforristal 

I'm affraid it's not possible with built-in functionality.
But you can make it through REST API.
You can write a simple python script to parse all spaces and pages, look for text and replace it.