Confluence REST API
Atlassian Confluence REST API for reading and writing pages, spaces, and content in team wikis, enabling agents to search, retrieve, create, and update documentation.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
OAuth2 with granular Confluence-specific scopes. API tokens for basic auth (avoid basic auth in production). SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP. Atlassian Cloud vs Server have different auth models. MCP server via Atlassian integration.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
Your organization uses Confluence as a knowledge base and agents need to read existing documentation or write structured content like runbooks, post-mortems, or reports.
Avoid When
You need a developer-friendly docs platform or public documentation hosting.
Use Cases
- • Querying Confluence pages to retrieve documentation context for RAG pipelines
- • Creating or updating runbooks and incident post-mortems from agent workflows
- • Searching knowledge base content to answer employee questions
- • Syncing architectural decision records (ADRs) from code to Confluence
- • Generating weekly status updates and publishing to team spaces
Not For
- • Teams not using Confluence (high adoption barrier)
- • Public-facing documentation (Confluence is primarily internal)
- • High-frequency content updates (API rate limits are restrictive)
Interface
Authentication
Confluence Cloud uses the same Atlassian OAuth2 system as Jira. API tokens work for both products. Scopes control read/write access per product. Data Center uses PATs.
Pricing
API access on all plans. Often bundled with Jira in Atlassian Cloud subscriptions. Free plan allows basic API usage.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Confluence Cloud has two REST API versions (v1 and v2) with different endpoints and payloads — v2 is preferred
- ⚠ Page content is stored as Confluence storage format (XHTML variant) — not plain Markdown, requires conversion
- ⚠ Page IDs are numeric strings — title-based lookups require a search step first
- ⚠ Space keys are used to identify spaces — must be known before writing to a space
- ⚠ Attachments require multipart form uploads — different flow from page content creation
- ⚠ Rate limits are not clearly documented and vary by endpoint — expect 429s on bulk operations
- ⚠ MCP server (mcp-atlassian) covers both Jira and Confluence in a single server
Alternatives
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.