atlassian-oauth-helper

Python helper script for generating Jira and Confluence OAuth tokens, for use with their REST APIs

Requirements

• Python 3
• A reasonably recent version of Jira/Confluence

Instructions

Create and source a new virtualenv:

virtualenv --python=python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install required Python modules:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Generate a private RSA key to sign your requests, and extract the public key:

openssl genrsa -out privkey.pem 2048
openssl rsa -pubout -in privkey.pem -out pubkey.pem

Configure an Application Link in Jira/Confluence as detailed here (see the section titled 'Configure the client app as a consumer in Jira, using application links').

Run the script:

./atlassian-oauth-helper.py BASEURL CONSUMER KEYFILE

Where:

• BASEURL: The base URL (including any context, if applicable) to your Jira/Confluence instance. For example, https://www.example.com/confluence
• CONSUMER: The consumer key you chose when setting up your Application Link
• KEYFILE: The path to the RSA private key you created at the beginning of this guide