Confluence Rest API for authentication

[ankita_mii]

I am using  https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/6.8.0/ documentation for Creating a Space and writing the content into it. But i am facing authentication issue. If i put GET API in browser and login into confluence then Getting correct Response. 

But Same thing is not achieving by sending request from Postman/CURL. It is always returning 403 in response. because the documentation don't have an API for authentication. How i can achieve this?

[Alexey Matveev]

Kindly have a look at the KB below:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/basic-auth-for-rest-apis/

It is written there how to provide values for basic authenticaion.

[ankita_mii]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for quick response. I am using my local confluence which is deploy on our local server. how i can generate token for confluence?

[Alexey Matveev]

If you execute by curl then it must be like this

curl -D- \
   -X GET \
   -H "Authorization: Basic dXNlcjp1c2Vy" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   "https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/QA-31"

The Authorization part you do like this:

1. Supply an Authorization header with content Basic followed by the encoded string. For example, the string user:userpassword encodes to dXNlcjp1c2Vy in base64, so you would make the request as follows:

[ankita_mii]

Hi Alex,

With reference to this document https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-rest-api-examples/

curl -u myuser:mypwd -X GET "http://localip/confluence/rest/api/content?type=blogpost&start=0&limit=10&expand=space,history,body.view,metadata.labels"

this is return very basic response below

{"results":[],"start":0,"limit":10,"size":0,"_links":{"self":"http://myip/confluence/rest/api/content?expand=space,history,body.view,metadata.labels&type=blogpost","base":"http://myip/confluence","context":"/confluence"}}

Now same API request i am sending using browser

http://localip/confluence/rest/api/content?type=blogpost&start=0&limit=10&expand=space,history,body.view,metadata.labels 

this is returning detailed response of content because i am logged in confluence.

What is the issue in my CURL?

[Alexey Matveev]

Try not to login to confluence in your browser and execute the rest. Have a look at the returned value.

[ankita_mii]

If i dont login in browser it also have same response as a CURL

[Alexey Matveev]

It means that you are not authorised to Confluence. Try to authorize like in the article, which I provided.

[ankita_mii]

Tried this both

curl -D- \
 -u username:pwd \
 -X GET \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 http://myip/confluence/rest/api/user?username=admin
 
 
 curl -D- \
 -X GET \
 -H "Authorization: Basic base64==" \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 http://myip/confluence/rest/api/user?username=admin

Getting 403

{"statusCode":403,"data":{"authorized":false,"valid":true,"errors":[],"successful":false,"notSuccessful":true},"message":"User not permitted to view user profiles"}

[ankita_mii]

http://myip/confluence/rest/api/user?username=admin

Same URL working in browser if i login to confluence

[Alexey Matveev]

Make sure that you put user:userpassword correctly to base64. 

[ankita_mii]

Yes it is correct . I have encoded my user:password to base64 correctly.Still it is not working for my local confluence.

[ankita_mii]

Is it possible something is blocking from installed server?

[ankita_mii]

Hi Alex,

The issue is been fixed. The issue was with my ipaddress . Out local Confluence was running in ip only but api call require port too. Appending port in request URL Fixed my issue.

Thanks,

Ankita