JIRA with Python

Question

I am fairly new to the world of Python. Have just read some documents and want to get started.

I want to design a tool written in Python to pick up issues from JIRA that have been marked as resolved by our QA team and then display a nice html report of the bug fixes going in per release basis.

I am trying to understand mechanisms to connect to JIRA from Python but things are not getting cleared.

I have installed : jira-python-lib but when I try and make a connection, I get errors.

 # /usr/bin/python

 from jira.client import JIRA

 jira_options={'server': 'https://xxxxxxxx.atlassian.net'}

 jira=JIRA(options=jira_options,basic_auth=('xxxxxxx','xxxxxx'))

If I execute the code above, it gives me this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test1.py", line 9, in <module>
    jira=JIRA(options=jira_options,basic_auth=('*****','****'))
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 88, in __init__
    self._create_http_basic_session(*basic_auth)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 1368, in _create_htt
    p_basic_session
    hooks={'args': self._add_content_type})
     TypeError: session() takes no arguments (2 given)

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?

Also, I can't find any information at JIRA-DOC regarding automation.

Can some one please guide to helpful documentation in this regard?

Found out that I need to enable authentication enableBasicAuth in order to make this work. Need to try this.

when i login to the webpage with my id and password, it works fine. Do i need any additional tool to access this url from python? any idea? — f-z-N
– f-z-N, Commented Jan 8, 2013 at 6:52
I've never used JIRA or its automation API. That's why I posted this as a comment and not as an answer. — zmbq
– zmbq, Commented Jan 8, 2013 at 6:57
You can just use python requests library. Make a request to rest api endpoint. There will be limit in max output from API endpoint so you need to use pagination and get all the data and format as you wish. developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/… — Allen Johnson
– Allen Johnson, Commented Nov 8, 2021 at 19:21

mdoar · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-08 18:38:29Z

5

This is a temporary bug with the jira-python library, more info at https://bitbucket.org/bspeakmon/jira-python/issue/9/jira-python-package-does-not-work-with-the

answered Jan 8, 2013 at 18:38

mdoar

6,9071 gold badge23 silver badges20 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

slm Over a year ago

I think the link is broke? When I attempt to access it I get access denied.

James McClay · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-22 12:31:59Z

1

Basic authentication to the Jira API using user/password has been deprecated. You need to create an API token from your Atlassian account profile here https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens

Then you can connect to Jira from python3 using the jira-python module, docs are here https://jira.readthedocs.io/installation.html

from jira import JIRA
jira = JIRA(
 'https://<my-jira-domain>.atlassian.net',
 basic_auth=('[email protected]','my-api-token')
)

I wrote this all on my blog. https://automationjames.com/

answered Oct 22, 2021 at 12:31

James McClay

764 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

JIRA with Python

2 Answers 2

1 Comment

Comments

Your Answer

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

1 Comment

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Linked

Related