How to prevent the parent folder name from appending to the page created in Confluence using CLI

This article explains how to prevent the parent folder name being appended to the page created in Confluence using the Confluence Command Line Interface app.

Instructions

Follow the steps below to pull the HTML content into the Confluence page without appending the title of the page to each .html files using runFromCsv and addPage CLI actions: 

  • runFromCsv: Runs all the actions generated from the CSV file with the parameters mentioned.
  • addPage: Create a confluence page.
  1. Create a .csv file with column headers space, title, parent and file and input the values as shown below:


    Here, the files are placed in the CLI client location. 


    Here is a sample HTML file:
  2. Run the below CLI action:

    --action runFromCsv --file "Files_Folder/HTML.csv" --common "--action addPage --replace --markdown"

    The output is displayed on the Confluence page based on the command executed:

    Output on the Terminal:
    Run: --space "CLI" --title "CLI_Title_1" --parent "addPage_CLI" --file "Files_Folder/File1.html" --action addPage --replace --markdown
    Page created as 'CLI_Title_1' in space CLI as child of 'addPage_CLI'. Page has id 11534344.
    
    Run: --space "CLI" --title "CLI_Title_2" --parent "addPage_CLI" --file "Files_Folder/File2.html" --action addPage --replace --markdown
    Page created as 'CLI_Title_2' in space CLI as child of 'addPage_CLI'. Page has id 11534345.
    
    Run: --space "CLI" --title "CLI_Title_3" --parent "addPage_CLI" --file "Files_Folder/File3.html" --action addPage --replace --markdown
    Page created as 'CLI_Title_3' in space CLI as child of 'addPage_CLI'. Page has id 11534346.
    
    Run completed successfully. 3 actions were successful from file: Files_Folder/HTML.csv
    

If the file(s) are at a different location, you have to enter the full path of the HTML file under the file column.