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 Hello All ! As a Jira administrator it is very important to keep an eye on the number of custom fields you have in your instance because the number of custom fields directly impact your instance performance. Atlassian also has confirmed this in their documentation .  One of the important strategies to keep your custom field number low is to reuse them as much as possible across projects. When you get a request from a user to create a custom project, you can provide a list of custom fields upfront, and ask the user to choose existing fields instead of creating new ones. Out of the box, Jira doesn't provide an easy way to export the custom field list to a csv file to share with non Jira admin users. In this blog I will share how I exported all Jira custom fields into a csv file using Jira REST API and Python. This solution was tested on Jira Data Center version 8.x, Python3 and Windows 11. Let's see how we can get the custom field list in 3 easy steps. Note : I assume that you

Hello All! Upgrading a large Jira Data Center instance is no easy task. One of the main steps of this process is communicating to project leads about this. When there are hundreds of Jira projects in your instance, it can be tedious to manually find the email address of each project lead. In this blog I will share how I exported all Jira project lead email addresses into a csv file using Jira REST API and Python. This solution was tested on Jira Data Center version 8.x ,  Python3 and  Windows 11 . Let's see how we can get this email list in 3 easy steps. Note: I assume that you have Python setup in your environment where you will run the script in Step 3 and you know how to run a python script. Also, that you have access to all Jira projects in the instance because REST API will only return data from projects where you have access.  Step 1: Login to your Jira instance. Go to the url https://your.instance.domain/rest/api/2/project?expand=lead. This url will return all projects in