# Atlassian REST API Design Guidelines

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/atlassian/  
**Provider:** API Style Guides — https://apis.io/providers/style-guides/  
**Base URL:** https://developer.atlassian.com/  
**Documentation:** https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/atlassian-rest-api-design-guidelines-version-1/

Atlassian REST API Design Guidelines is one of 11 APIs that [API Style Guides](https://apis.io/providers/style-guides/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include REST, Atlassian, Jira, and Confluence.

Atlassian's REST API design guidelines, applied across Jira, Confluence, Crowd, and plugin REST modules. Defines URI conventions (singular resources, versioned paths, expand/start-index/max-results query parameters), HTTP method semantics, response codes, and versioning policy.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **StyleGuide** — https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/atlassian-rest-api-design-guidelines-version-1/
- **Scope**

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## Tags

REST, Atlassian, Jira, Confluence

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