How to access Atlassian using PHP - php

Question

I want to fetch content from my Atlassian with username and password.
The URL typically looks like:
http://my-own-site.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=TO&title=Any-Wiki-Title
Is it possible to use PHP CURL to fetch content from this page?
So far I am only getting 401 auth reqd error.
I have looked through Stackoverflow and all I am getting is how to access basic atlassian.com and bitbucket.org pages.

Answer 1

With this code in php, you can create Confluence Pages:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "{\"type\":\"page\",\"title\":\"**inserttitle**\",\"space\":{\"key\":\"**insertspace**\"},\"ancestors\":[{\"type\":\"page\",\"id\":**insertancestor**}],\"body\":{\"storage\":{\"value\":\"<p>This is a new page</p>\",\"representation\":\"storage\"}}}");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "**insertusername**" . ":" . "**insertpassword**");
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close ($ch);
?>
And with this code, you can get content from Confluence:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content/**insertid**");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "**insertusername**" . ":" . "**insertpassword**");
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close ($ch);
?>
echo $result;
Modify the parameter. I marked the words with insert*

Answer 2

Yes, it is certainly possible to access Atlassian products using PHP and cURL. I do it all the time to create/modify Jira issues
You will have to find/write a library (or set of libraries) which will allow you to access REST API calls. In my case, I wrote a base REST library which can then be inherited to create Jira, Confluence, any other REST service libraries
Search the Atlassian documentation site to find the REST API for the product you're using (Confluence in your case I would guess)
Don't forget that the REST API uses GET, POST, PUT and DELETE methods so your library will need to handle all of these
With regards to your error, I *think* your login will need to be allowed access to the API calls

Answer 3

To retrieve any existing content properties for a piece of content, use url as https://your-domain.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/{content_ID}
$curl = curl_init();
$post = array(
"id" => "{content_ID}",
"type" => "{content_ID}", //Ex. page
"title" => "{content_Title}",
"space" => ["key" => "{spaces_key}"],
"body" => ["storage" => ["value" => "<p>Here comes the other text</p>", "representation" => "storage"]],
"version" => ["number" => 15]
);
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://your-domain.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/{content_ID}?expand=metadata.properties.myprop,space,body.view,version,container",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 300,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode($post),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"authorization: Basic {base64 of (username:password)}",
"content-type: application/json",
'Accept: application/json'
),
));
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);