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

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.

Answer 1

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}"

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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"
}
}
]

Answer 4

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>