Atlassian account-id

Question

Recently, due to the GDPR new regulations on privacy, Atlassian have deprecated their access method via API.

As of about 1 week from today, accessing using username/email and password will no longer work.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/deprecation-notice-user-privacy-api-migration-guide/

The new access method is by use of an account-id instead of a username, and an API-KEY instead of a password.

Unfortunately, I am unable to get my hands on my account ID.

I have spent hours reading through the documentation, but am unable to figure out how to get it.

I have read through https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/where-can-i-find-my-Account-ID/qaq-p/976527 but the methods there don't get me the account id.

Please give me the simplest method to translate my username and password to my account id.

Answer 1

I think you are mistaken. The article doesn't say anything about deprecating the authentication method. They are just gonna stop exposing things like username and userKey in the API.

You should be able to get your accountId from /rest/api/3/myself