Can I use wget to download attachments?

[Deleted user]

We are using a JIRA web site as a transfer point between two companies and a particular ticket to pass patches back and forth. (I won't go into the politics as to why this is so. Suffice it to say that this vehicle was chosen as the result of a negotiating process.) Anyway, as you might suspect, the list of stuff I need to pull gets long. I got what I thought was a list of URL's to pull, only to discover wget had pulled 30 copies of a java script intended to bring up a "where do you want this" helpful window. Not what I want. How do I just get the files without all the extra UI help? Thank you!

[Bob Swift · Accepted solution]

Don't know about that, but you may find JIRA Command Line Interface useful. Specifically getAttachment and getAttachmentList

[Deleted user]

I went to your "JIRA Command Line Interface" link and confess I found it confusing. There are a lot of entries there with no clear ordering or way to decide which one it is I want. I guess this one: jira-cli-3.1.0-distribution.zip -- I'll know in a bit. Thank you!

https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Documentation#Documentation-getAttachment ``Get lastest'' I found to be a fun term. :)

[Higashi]

Yes, you can. You can use bash `wget`, `curl` or whatever tool suits you. But not without any preparation. You have to use WebDav Servlet. So, assuming we are talking about confluence cloud and domain: `example.atlassian.net`, your URL would be: 

https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/confluence/default/Global/

This would get you "dashboard" view. If you want to download attachment 'samplefile' on space 'EXAMPLE' under page `subsite`, with tree as follows:

EXAMPLE/
├── home
│   └── subsite
└── test

Your URL would look like: 

https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/confluence/default/Global/EXAMPLE/home/subsite/samplefile

Example in bash, using `wget`:

$ wget --user=test.user --ask-pass https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/confluence/default/Global/EXAMPLE/home/subsite/samplefile

[Deleted user]

It takes a little getting used to, but it works like a charm. Thank you. A tiny nit: "$@" will _always_ expand to at least one parameter. If it is empty, the program sees one empty argument. ${1+"$@"} is a little geeky, but expands to nothing when there are no arguments.

$ cat jira.sh 
#!/bin/bash

# Comments
# - Customize for your installation, for instance you might
# want to add default parameters like the following:
# java -jar `dirname $0`/lib/jira-cli-3.1.0.jar --server
# http://my-server --user automation --password automation "$@"

server='--server http://jira-..../'
passwd='--user automation --password automation'
jar="-jar $(dirname $0)/lib/jira-cli-3.1.0.jar"
java $jar $server $passwd ${1+"$@"}