Jira

Atlassian Jira Issues API

Create, read, update and delete Jira issues.

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Operations 28

POST /issue Jira Create Issue #
GET /issue/{issueIdOrKey} Jira Get Issue #
PUT /issue/{issueIdOrKey} Jira Edit Issue #
DELETE /issue/{issueIdOrKey} Jira Delete Issue #
POST /rest/api/3/changelog/bulkfetch Bulk fetch changelogs #
GET /rest/api/3/events Get events #
POST /rest/api/3/issue Create issue #
POST /rest/api/3/issue/archive Archive issue(s) by JQL #
PUT /rest/api/3/issue/archive Archive issue(s) by issue ID/key #
POST /rest/api/3/issue/bulk Bulk create issue #
POST /rest/api/3/issue/bulkfetch Bulk fetch issues #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/createmeta Get create issue metadata #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/createmeta/{projectIdOrKey}/issuetypes Get create metadata issue types for a project #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/createmeta/{projectIdOrKey}/issuetypes/{issueTypeId} Get create field metadata for a project and issue type id #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/limit/adf/report Get issue adf limit report #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/limit/report Get issue limit report #
PUT /rest/api/3/issue/unarchive Unarchive issue(s) by issue keys/ID #
DELETE /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey} Delete issue #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey} Get issue #
PUT /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey} Edit issue #
PUT /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/assignee Assign issue #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/changelog Get changelogs #
POST /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/changelog/list Get changelogs by IDs #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/editmeta Get edit issue metadata #
POST /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/notify Send notification for issue #
GET /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/transitions Get transitions #
POST /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/transitions Transition issue #
PUT /rest/api/3/issues/archive/export Export archived issue(s) #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/intro/
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Authentication
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/intro/#authentication
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Documentation
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/intro/
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Documentation
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/service-desk/rest/intro/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jira/refs/heads/main/openapi/jira-issues-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

jira-issues-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Jira Issues API
  x-refined-note:
  - x-atlassian-api-version differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Issues across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: jira-cloud-platform-rest-api-openapi.yml, jira-platform-openapi.json. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://{domain}.atlassian.net/rest/api/3
  description: Jira Cloud instance
  variables:
    domain:
      description: Your Jira Cloud site subdomain (e.g., your-company).
      default: your-domain
- url: https://your-domain.atlassian.net
tags:


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