A step-by-step guide to performing a few Jira operations through python.
Before knowing the automation part let’s get a brief understanding of Jira software.
It is a well-known name in today’s software industry and a powerful work management tool. According to the Jira website, It helps teams plan, assign, track, report, and manage work and brings teams together for everything from agile software development and customer support to start-ups and enterprises.
In this article, we will know about the Atlassian Jira Python library and how we can perform the different tasks by using this library in Jira.
Atlassian Jira is a python library built on top of the Jira API.
Before accessing the Jira tasks and performing operations on them, We need two things.
- Jira access token
- Account id
For the Jira access token, You can open the Jira from any browser, click on the initials of your name at the right top corner then go to the account settings and select ‘security’ and create a new API token.
For account_id, After clicking on the initials, select ‘profile’. From the URL you can extract the account_id.
