Some quick and dirty automation involving JIRA and wiki (Confluence wiki), for example creating a dependency report from JIRA and sticking it in a wiki page.
(see also my other JIRA-related projects here here here and here)
If one wants to export data from JIRA, the best way is get it via the API.
That said, it might be occasionally needed to do basic automation for which there is no API. In that case it might be OK to access features directly via the web UI interface. Also this tecnique might be handy for some quick automation hacks.
(Note that there is always a risk to automatically perform unintended operations, so use your best judgement!
This solution consists in using Python + a library called Mechanize (originally a PERL library) used for web testing and for screen scraping where APIs or backend access is not available.
Python is already installed on OSX. For Windows installation there are several tutorials online.
To install Mechanize:
- install EasyInstall (look up on google)
- then, from command line
easy_install mechanize
Then take a look and use the scripts in this repo (replace your configuration first). Then run them in command line doing:
python [name of script].py
##Example
One of these example scripts logs you in JIRA and prints the landing page, one runs a search, and one puts a dependency analisys in a wiki (confluence) page of your choice, here is how the final report looks like in this case:
