Which API will be best for multiple calls

[yashraj basan]

I am not understanding.What to use here I don't want to log in every time.

- Basic authentication ( not good for multiple calls)

- Cookie-based authentication (what if the session expired. I don't want to log in again)

- API Token ( is it just for cloud?)

Any idea.  thank in advance

[DPKJ · Accepted solution]

@yashraj basan  Welcome to the community!

You are mostly correct about everything.

• Basic authentication
  • Good for testing etc.
  • I have system that makes lots of request to Jira using this without any issue
  • Authentication is pretty fast
• Cookie Based authentication
  • Not good, session expiry depend on activity etc.
• API Token
  • This is just like basic authentication and is only available for Jira Cloud offering

You missed one, oAuth ( https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/oauth/ )

• oAuth is really great for your use case,
• Expiry time of oAuth toke is 5 years (I think this is pretty much enough)

[yashraj basan]

Thank you for replying. You are life saver