How to get "Project Id" to create a Direct Link?

Question

I have my project name, but not the numeric Project Id. The latter is needed to use HTML Direct Links.I'm using JIRA 5.0.1

How do I get the numeric Project Id for a given project name?

I've searched the Project Administration area, several other places, the documentation, Google, etc but still can't find a way to get that value.

Thanks.

I googled it and found out this link. http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/CreateIssueDetails!init.jspa?pid=10420 to create JIRA issue using HTML link. But when i created my project with some name 'ABC' , i cannot get that pid=xxxx.... just wanted to know from where can i get that pid from ? — jasmeet24, Mar 28 '12 at 05:50
and whenever i run that link on localhost i get this error : You have not selected a valid project to create an issue in. — jasmeet24, Mar 28 '12 at 05:54

sebnukem · Answer 1 · 2015-05-06T17:48:02.210

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This solution does not require admin rights:

Navigate to https://jira.YOURDOMAIN.TLD/rest/api/2/project/YOURPROJECTNAME and read the id in the JSON response:

{
    "self":"https://jira.YOURDOMAIN.TLD/rest/api/2/project/YOURPROJECTNAME",
    "id":"12345",  ☜ Project Id
    "key":"YOURPROJECTNAME",
    "description":..
    :
}

Navigate to https://jira.YOURDOMAIN.TLD/rest/api/2/project to get a JSON list of projects.

Bonus: here's a one-liner in Groovy to get the ID:

groovy -e "println new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText("https://jira.YOURDOMAIN.TLD/rest/api/2/project/YOURPROJECTNAME".toURL().text)?.id ?: 'not found'"

A java.io.FileNotFoundException probably means that your JIRA server requires authentication.

Here's a one-liner to list all the visible projects and their ID:

groovy -e "new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText('https://jira.YOURDOMAIN.TLD/rest/api/2/project'.toURL().text)?.each{println it.key+' = '+it.id}"

edited May 06 '15 at 17:48

answered Dec 18 '13 at 21:38

sebnukem

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This one worked for me - I couldn't find the Admin page mentioned in the top answer. – ninhenzo64 Apr 22 '14 at 22:10
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This solution doesn't require administrative permissions for JIRA to access. – Chris Arena Apr 29 '14 at 19:24
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With this one (the best for me), you can found all key value for direct jira creation : _components_, _issuetype_ supported by project, etc. So good :) – Alix Lourme Dec 03 '14 at 21:10
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Agreed, this should be the accepted answer since it doesn't require special permissions. Thanks for this! – Sensei_Shoh Jan 28 '17 at 03:07
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Thank you! Only solution I was finding was the "Edit Project" one, but I didn't have permissions to see that button. This helped. – Mathieson Mar 31 '17 at 21:26

score 39 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 30 '15 at 13:26

The easiest way is to do it from the web browser:

Go to the Administration page.
Select the Project from the menu.
Hover over 'Edit Project' link and check the link href (in the status bar).
It should be something like http://servername:8080/secure/project/EditProject!default.jspa?pid=10040

Where pid is the id you are looking for.

For Jira 6.x:

place the cursor on EDIT Project button and
look at the url being redirected at bottom left of the screen

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 13 '14 at 18:29

This solution doesn't require admin rights and shows you all of the projects the current user can view.

https://example.com/rest/api/2/project

Responses found here.

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#d2e4972

returns a json array.

[
    {
        "self": "http://www.example.com/jira/rest/api/2/project/EX",
        "id": "10000",
        "key": "EX",
        "name": "Example",
        "avatarUrls": {
            "24x24": "http://www.example.com/jira/secure/projectavatar?size=small&pid=10000",
            "16x16": "http://www.example.com/jira/secure/projectavatar?size=xsmall&pid=10000",
            "32x32": "http://www.example.com/jira/secure/projectavatar?size=medium&pid=10000",
            "48x48": "http://www.example.com/jira/secure/projectavatar?size=large&pid=10000"
        },
        "projectCategory": {
            "self": "http://www.example.com/jira/rest/api/2/projectCategory/10000",
            "id": "10000",
            "name": "FIRST",
            "description": "First Project Category"
        }
    },
    {
        "self": "http://www.example.com/jira/rest/api/2/project/ABC",
        "id": "10001",
        "key": "ABC",
        "name": "Alphabetical",
        "avatarUrls": {
            "24x24": "http://www.example.com/jira/secure/projectavatar?size=small&pid=10001",
            "16x16": "http://www.example.com/jira/secure/projectavatar?size=xsmall&pid=10001",
            "32x32": "http://www.example.com/jira/secure/projectavatar?size=medium&pid=10001",
            "48x48": "http://www.example.com/jira/secure/projectavatar?size=large&pid=10001"
        },
        "projectCategory": {
            "self": "http://www.example.com/jira/rest/api/2/projectCategory/10000",
            "id": "10000",
            "name": "FIRST",
            "description": "First Project Category"
        }
    }
]

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 28 '17 at 21:33

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Exporting a ticket in XML reveals the project ID for me. I am not admin, so can't access the admin page. The rest/json trick didn't work for me, either. The XML of an issue has the following,

<project id="1234" key="test">TEST Project</project>

answered Jun 28 '17 at 21:33

barryku

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The best and easiest way to get the project_id. – Alexander Skvortsov Feb 09 '21 at 08:41

How to get "Project Id" to create a Direct Link?

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