Trying to get list of all users through rest

[Ankit kharola]

I am trying to get a list of users in jira i am using the api 

/rest/api/3/users/search  but it doesnt return a total that is the total number of users  and it also has a maxCount of 50 so how do we get a list of all the users in jira if we want to?

[Vishal Biyani]

@Ankit kharola 

You need to loop through till you get 0 count for users. 

Assuming you are using python

payload = {'startAt': 0, 'maxResults': 1000}

while True:
call the api end point
Get number of users returned.
if number of users == 1000:
   payload['startAt'] += 1000
else:
   break

hope this helps

[Ankit kharola]

@Vishal Biyani hello sir  will there be a case where number of users are more than the the number i set in maxresuts? because when we are fetching issues we get a total so we can run a while loop on that as we now the total numbr of issues but here i am confused about that

[Vishal Biyani]

@Ankit kharola 

use this end point, with startAt=0 and maxResults=1000

https://your-domain.atlassian.net//rest/api/3/users?startAt=0&maxResults=1000

Say you have 1500 users. 

in the first call when response.json() length is calculated it will return 1000.

2nd call will be

https://your-domain.atlassian.net//rest/api/3/users?startAt=1000&maxResults=1000

this will give the array length at 500 and this will be termination condition for the while loop.

[Fazila Ashraf]

Hi @Ankit kharola 

Have you tried this end point? -> https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-users/#api-rest-api-3-user-bulk-get

This gives a paginated list..

[Ankit kharola]

hello @Fazila Ashraf  i did look at the endpoint but the doubt i have is the endpoint you mentioned  Returns a paginated list of the users specified by one or more account IDs. but i was looking to fetch all the users. and its not returning the total number of users like we get when we are fetching issues. my doubt was when i am getting all users we dont get a total field there so how would we fetch all the users that are there?