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This article explains how to get URLs that are on Confluence pages in bulk using the Confluence Command Line Interface app.

Instructions

To get all the URLs from Confluence pages to a file, use runFromPageList and getSource actions., based on given parameters. 

The parameters used in the actions are:

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• findReplaceRegex: The regex pattern used to match the patterns of the links.
• special: Characters used for specialized processing of some specific parameters.
• append: The append will append output to the existing file.

• Execute the below command to get all links from pages in all spaces of a Confluence instance:
  
  

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  theme Midnight
  --action runFromPageList --space "@all" --clearFileBeforeAppend --common "--action getSource --id @pageId@ --special: "" #"" --append --file spaceLinkList.txt" --input "--findReplaceRegex ""(?s).*?href=.(http[s]{0,1}://[./a-z]+)#$1,"" --findReplaceRegex ""(?s)(((http[s]{0,1}://[./a-z]+),)*).*#$1"" --findReplaceRegex "",#' \n '"" "

  
  

• Execute the below command to get all the links from a single page of a space:
  

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  theme Midnight
  --action getSource --space "ZCLI" --title "PAGE2" --special " #" --findReplaceRegex "(?s).*?href=\"(http[s]{0,1}://[./a-z]+)#\$1 \n"

  
  
  Output from the above commands:
  
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The parameters used in the actions are:

• --space: Name of the space. In this case, @all represents all spaces in an instance.
• --clearFileBeforeAppend: This option will automatically clear an existing file on the first append requested.
• --id: ids of pages. In this case, it searches for all the pages in the spaces using @pageId@
• --file: Path/name to file of result output.
• --findReplaceRegex: The regex pattern used to match the patterns of the links.
• --special: Characters used for specialized processing of some specific parameters.
• --append: The append will append output to the existing file.

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