Rest API how to disable page creation/update notifications
Asked by Sukhjinder Bhullar:

Hello,

I am using confluence rest api and python module requests to create multiple pages in confluence. my tool has to run every day and delete old pages and create new pages with details.

problem is while it creates new page it also send notification to the watcher of space. I do not want to send notification to watcher of space for new page creation..

code sample:

invpagebodyhtml = "\<p\>\<b\>This page is published by automation tool.\</b\>\</p\>"  
create_page = json.dumps( { "type": "page", "title": "testing-notification", "space": {"key": "TEST"}, "ancestors": \[{"id": 1234567}\], "status": "current", "body": {"storage": {"value": invpagebodyhtml, "representation": "storage",}}, })

response = requests.request( "POST", URL, data=create_page, headers=headers,)

it creates the page but I could not find way to disable notification at time of page creation.

As per my research on internet, I found <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Prevent-notifications-when-using-REST-API/qaq-p/948058> which says feature is not supported for page creation however minorEdit : true can be used for disabling notification for update on pages which I am looking for.

any help here please?

Thanks

Sukh


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hey Sukh,

I can confirm that there's currently no notification suppression for page creation via API in Confluence Cloud. You can get more details about the feature request on our public Jira: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-38804>

Thinking about your request, I have two ideas on how to stop the notifications:

1. Do you need to delete the old pages and create new ones, vs simply **updating** the existing pages? If you could update the pages instead, you could make use of the

   ```
   "minorEdit" : true
   ```

   parameter which would suppress notifications. If there's not a strong reason to delete the pages, this would be the easier approach.  

2. If these new pages all have the same parent, you could [restrict the parent page](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/#api-api-content-id-restriction-put) while your script is running. As these new pages would be created in a restricted section, notifications would not be triggered for users without access. Your script would need to do the following:  
   1. Restrict the parent page ([Restriction call in the REST API](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/#api-api-content-id-restriction-put)) to be only visible to the user running the script
   2. Do the current delete/create process you have in your existing script
   3. Un-restrict the parent page

Although not as straightforward as just adding a parameter for page creation, I think you can get your desired results using one of these two methods.

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Sukhjinder Bhullar
body: Thanks Daniel. We could suppress it by throwing users out of watching of space :)


author: Chris P.
body: Thanks guys \> did the same thing.

This was an issue for us when we were only updating attachments via API (vs content with a body).

Tried with both:

```
"minorEdit" : True
```

and

```
"minorEdit" : False?
```

included in API call data field, and it would still notify watchers via email.

Solution was to remove all watchers, update attachments, and the re-add the watchers back to affected pages.

Resources:

[Get watches for page](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content-watches/#api-api-content-id-notification-child-created-get)

[Remove watches for page](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content-watches/#api-api-user-watch-content-contentid-delete)

[Add content watcher](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content-watches/#api-api-user-watch-content-contentid-post)


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