Create issues in Jira with bash from a Json file

create-all-jira-issues.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Read through this first please

# First set some variables

echo "Enter username:"
read username

echo "Enter password:"
read -s password

echo "Jira url including trailing slash: (e.g. https://jira.company.net/)"
read jira_url
api_url="${jira_url}rest/api/2/issue/"

# Loop through each task in tasks.json
task_count=$(jq '.tasks | length' tasks.json)

for (( c=0; c<task_count; c++ ))
do
    data=$(jq ".tasks | .[${c}]" tasks.json)
    echo "Sending task $((c+1))..."
    curl -D- -u "$username":"$password" --data "$data" -H "Content-Type: application/json" "${api_url}"
    echo # Print a newline for readability
done

create-one-jira-issue.sh

#!/bin/bash
# change c to control the number

# Read through this first please

# First set some variables

echo "Enter username:"
read username

echo "Enter password:"
read -s password

echo "Jira url including trailing slash: (e.g. https://jira.company.net/)"
read jira_url
api_url="${jira_url}rest/api/2/issue/"


# Just repeat this line each time instead of redoing above
c=1 && data=$(jq ".tasks | .[${c}]"  tasks.json) && curl -D- -u "$username":"$password" --data "$data" -H "Content-Type: application/json" "${api_url}"

tasks.json

{
    "tasks": [
        {
            "fields": {
                "summary": "Task Summary 1",
                "timetracking": {
                    "originalEstimate": "1h",
                    "remainingEstimate": "1h"
                },
                "duedate": "2024-10-18T16:00:00.000-0700",
                "assignee": { "name": "username1" },

                "project": { "key": "PROJECT1"},
                "description": "Task Description 1",
                "customfield_10202": { "name": "requestor_username" },  # Requestor, find your own custom field # and remove this comment
                "issuetype": { "name": "Task" },
                "customfield_10100": 813,  # Sprint, find your own custom field # and remove this comment
                "customfield_10101": "PROJ2-32"  # Epic link, find your own custom field # and remove this comment
            }
        },
        {
            "fields": {
                "summary": "Task Summary 2",
                "timetracking": {
                    "originalEstimate": "1h",
                    "remainingEstimate": "1h"
                },
                "duedate": "2024-10-18T16:00:00.000-0700",
                "assignee": { "name": "username2" },

                "project": { "key": "PROJECT1"},
                "description": "Task Description 2",
                "customfield_10202": { "name": "requestor_username" },  # Requestor, find your own custom field # and remove this comment
                "issuetype": { "name": "Task" },
                "customfield_10100": 813,  # Sprint, find your own custom field # and remove this comment
                "customfield_10101": "PROJ2-32"  # Epic link, find your own custom field # and remove this comment
         }
    ]
}