Script-only accounts in Jira Cloud?

[Peter Wilding]

Hi all, I have some scripts for automatically opening Jira issues via the API when specific problems are detected. I'd like these scripts to login to Jira Cloud through a bot user or service account of some sort instead of logging in through an actual user account.

What is the best way to go about this?

The only feasible solution I see right now is to create a new 'bot' account named something like 'Automated Bot Account', set it up with an email address that I can receive mail on, set its permissions to the project in question, and then generate an API key for it.  Then configure the scripts to login using that API Key.

This has the down sides of taking up a user license, and requiring a secondary email address that I can access.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance - Pete