Exporting Work Logs from Atlassian JIRA can be cumbersome or too expensive. On the other side, Atlassian offers a useful JIRA REST API, which we can use to get all the data we need.

This simple Spring Boot application can export work logs from JIRA issues, for a specific user, in the given period.

The exported format is CSV. It can be easily opened in text processors or in Excel.

In order to use the tool, we'll need to have a proper JIRA user account having permissions on the JIRA projects into which the work is logged. Additionally, the user should have a proper permissions assigned to read work logs.

Note: Instead of user password, we can use Atlassian ApiToken. See this link for the description how to create one.

We need to set parameters in application.yml:

• baseUrl - Root URL of the JIRA REST API (v2 supported), e.g. https://myjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2
• username - JIRA Username (of the user having proper privileges set)
• apiToken - API Token for the JIRA user (can also be JIRA user password, but is not recommended).

We should first build and then start Spring Boot application. One of the options to do so is:

mvn spring-boot:run

Let's execute the endpoint for exporting work logs:

http://localhost:8080/work-logs/csv-export?userDisplayName=Firstname%20Lastname&startDate=2019-07-01&endDate=2019-07-31

Where:

• userDisplayName - name of the JIRA user whose issue work logs are being exported
• startDate - Period start date (ISO Data format) in which work happened (inclusive)
• endDate - Period end date (ISO Data format) in which work happened (inclusive)
• dayOfWeekList - (optional parameter) additional filter, comma-delimited list of week days to export (e.g. Mon,Tue,Wed)

As a result, we'll download the CSV file, with next columns:

MIT License

Thanks to Marius Storm-Olsen for his code sample at Atlassian forum.