How to automate the opening and closing of a Sprint via REST API?

[Hernani Júnior]

Hello, community!

I am looking for a way to automate the start and end of Sprints in Jira using the REST API. I would like to know if anyone has implemented something similar and what the necessary steps would be to set up this automation. Additionally, where can I find the official documentation that addresses this specific topic?

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

[Anandhi Arumugam _Cprime_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Hernani Júnior 

You need to use the Update Sprint endpoint

https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/agile/1.0/sprint/{sprintId}

Please refer to the documentation https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-sprint/#api-rest-agile-1-0-sprint-sprintid-put

• A sprint can be started by updating the state to 'active'. This requires the sprint to be in the 'future' state and have a startDate and endDate set.
• A sprint can be completed by updating the state to 'closed'. This action requires the sprint to be in the 'active' state. This sets the completeDate to the time of the request.

Hope this helps!