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If you are writing a script that interacts with Jira through a REST API, you should authenticate using an OAuth token, rather than an embedded username/password. Here we describe one way to do the 'oauth dance' to generate a trusted token using Python 3 - specifically the jirashell utility from the jira Python package. jirashell then forms a useful basis for a Python script. Our example script uses OAuth to call an undocumented REST API for querying license data. |
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Personal Access Tokens make this approach obsolete. Use them instead if you are using Jira 8.14 and above. |
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These instructions no longer work for me on tested combinations {Ubuntu 18.04 + Python 3.6.9}, { Ubuntu 20.04 + Python 3.8.5}. The jirashell command should print a URL, but instead returns:
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pip3 install -U pip # upgrade pip to avoid "No module named 'setuptools_rust'" error
pip3 install jira ipython pyjwt |
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title | ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools_rust'? |
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Collecting cryptography>=2.0 (from SecretStorage>=3.2; sys_platform == "linux"->keyring->jira)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9b/77/461087a514d2e8ece1c975d8216bc03f7048e6090c5166bc34115afdaa53/cryptography-3.4.7.tar.gz (546kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 552kB 2.8MB/s
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
=============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE==========================
If you are seeing an error here please try the following to
successfully install cryptography:
Upgrade to the latest pip and try again. This will fix errors for most
users. See: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#upgrading-pip
=============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE==========================
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-xs9c9nwd/cryptography/setup.py", line 14, in <module>
from setuptools_rust import RustExtension
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools_rust'
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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-xs9c9nwd/cryptography/ |
then pip3 install -U pip should fix it. |
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