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About

The Skills for Jira API enables you to interact with Jira programmatically. Use this API to migrate data to/from external systems, implement automation around skills (e.g. add a skill to Assignee upon task completion) or develop any other type of integration. This page documents the available API endpoints Cloud, including the HTTP response codes and example requests and responses.

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You can access URLs of your instance’s API endpoints in the “Users” section of Skills for Jira - Administration console.

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Info

Skills for Jira API uses Bearer Authentication using a custom Authorization-Skills header. You can generate or re-generate your Bearer token at any time in your Skills for Jira - Administration Console.

Endpoints

Get user skills

Returns all skills of the specified user.

  • HTTP Method: GET

  • Request:

    • accountId (query) The account ID of the user. Required

  • Response [JSON]:

    • skills: An array of all skill names that the user has expertise in

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Adds one or more of skills to the specified user.

  • HTTP Method: PUT

  • Request:

    • accountId (query) The account ID of the user. Required

    • skills (body): An array of skills to add. Required

  • Response [JSON]:

    • added: An array of skills that were successfully added

    • existing: An array of skills that the user already had

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Removes one or more skills from the specified user.

  • HTTP Method: DELETE

  • Request:

    • accountId (query) The account ID of the user. Required

    • skills (body): An array of skills to remove. Required

  • Response [JSON]:

    • removed: An array of user’s skills that were successfully deleted

    • missing: An array of skills that the user did not possess

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Returns the mapping of all experts and their skills in your Jira instance

  • HTTP Method: GET

  • Request: None

  • Response [JSON]:

    • skillsByAccountId: users / skills mapping

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Updates skill sets of multiple users at once

  • HTTP Method: POST

  • Request:

    • skillsByAccountId: users / skills mapping

  • Response [JSON]:\

    • changes: all user skill changes after the import is processed

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Returns the complete skill tree with a list of experts specified for each skill

  • HTTP Method: GET

  • Request: None

  • Response [JSON]:

    • experts: skill tree with a list of experts specified for each skill

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