How to bulk update users email addresses in JIRA using REST API
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目標
Modify users information for a large number of users in JIRA
Information may be:
- username
- display name
Solution Example:
Steps to bulk update email addresses using JIRA REST API. For API method reference see:
Get data
How to display a current value for a user.
Please note there's jq utility used to parse JSON output data.
リクエスト
"get_email.sh" bash script:
#!/bin/sh
admin_user="admin"
admin_password="password"
user="tomd"
url="http://jira.domain.com/rest/api/2/user?username=${user}"
curl -s -u "${admin_user}:${admin_password}" ${url} | jq '.["emailAddress"]'出力
$ ./get_email.sh
"tomd@domain.com"Update data
How to update a current value with a new one:
リクエスト
"update_email.sh" bash script:
#!/bin/sh
admin_user="admin"
admin_password="password"
user="tomd"
url="http://jira.domain.com/rest/api/2/user?username=${user}"
headers="Content-Type: application/json"
data='{ "name": "tomd", "emailAddress": "tomd@new-domain.com" }'
curl -s -X PUT -u "${admin_user}:${admin_password}" -H "${headers}" --data "${data} ${url} | jq '.["emailAddress"]'出力
$ ./update_email.sh
"tomd@new-domain.com"Bulk update
Sample source data (users.txt):
user1 user1@new-domain
user2 user2@new-domain
user3 user3@new-domain
(...)Sample update script (update_email.sh):
#!/bin/sh
admin_user="admin"
admin_password="password"
user="$1"
user_new_email="${2}"
url="http://jira.domain.com/rest/api/2/user?username=${user}"
headers="Content-Type: application/json"
data='{ "name": "'$user'", "emailAddress": "'${user_new_email}'" }'
curl -s -X PUT -u "${admin_user}:${admin_password}" -H "${headers}" --data "${data}" ${url} | jq '.["emailAddress"]'Sample execution:
$ cat users.txt | xargs -n2 ./update_email.sh参考
We suggest that you use the free "REST API Browser" add-on to familiarize more with Jira API: