Authorization

In order to prevent abuse, you must authenticate yourself before you can use the migration API. This page explains the authorization process for the API.

Migration API authorization

Basic auth

• The migration API uses basic auth. Learn more about basic auth for REST APIs.
• Your username is the email address of your Atlassian Cloud account. Make sure this account has site or org admin permissions on the destination cloud site.
• Your password is your cloud API token. Learn how to generate a cloud API token

On-premises authorization

Jira on-premises

• You can use basic auth with the username and password you use to access Jira Server.
• If you’re using Jira 8.22 or later, you can use OAuth 2.0. Learn how to use OAuth 2.0
• If you’re using Jira 8.14 or later, generate a personal access token. You can then pass the token in parameters as Authorization: Bearer {access_token}. Learn how to generate a personal access token.

Confluence on-premises

• You can also use basic auth with the username and password you use to access Confluence Server.
• If you’re using Confluence 7.17 or later, you can use OAuth 2.0. Learn how to use OAuth 2.0
• If you’re using Confluence 7.9 or later, generate a personal access token. You can then pass the token in parameters as Authorization: Bearer {access_token}. Learn how to generate a personal access token.