I want to start using Jira cloud rest api

[Sunil Yadav]

I do not belong to the technical side.
Please help me understand how to use jira cloud rest api to get data and make changes in issues.

Can you guide me like where should I wright these api and how to give input, etc.
Please start from the basics.
Any documentation and help in this regard is much appreciated.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Jira has quite a lot of functions you can use over REST.  I could point you at the REST docs, but I find them dry (they are reference material, rather than practical)

However, the best way to get started with REST, I think, is to get straight into it.

I would create a test project in your Cloud system so you don't mess anything up, and then try out the examples in https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-examples/ with it!

[Sunil Yadav]

Thank you Nic for the reply.
I have read the content from the link you attached.
For starters, just tell me where do I need to write these rest api and codes?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The examples are curl commands you run on a command line.  

[Sunil Yadav]

By command line are you referring to command promt or cmd ?

[Sunil Yadav]

Hi Nic,

We are using .net in visual studio to trigger the rest api.
But an error saying that "the remote name could not be resolved" is showing.
Please help.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The .net call is being made to a server the machine cannot locate.  That's either you giving it the wrong name, your network not knowing how to resolve the name to an address, or your network blocking the route to it (although that third one should usually give a different error message)

Try an nslookup on the name of the Cloud server you are trying to reach, on the machine that your .net call is being made from.  I expect it to fail, but at least tell you why.