1 General
2 Users
3 Groups

Available since v. 2.14.0

Added content permission REST APIs

Available since v. 3.3.*

Get full information about who can view/edit specific content
Get full information about who can view/edit specific content (as a tree from space to specific content)
Get full information about content restrictions (as tree from space to specific content)

Available since v. 3.4.*

Added new parameter showSpaceAdministrators to below REST APIs:

Users: Get inherited content permission by content id, Get inherited content permission by content name
Groups - Get inherited content permission by content id, Get inherited content permission by content name

Available since v. 3.13.*

Added a new param “peopleWhoCanView” to the following REST APIs that allows you to show permissions exactly like the built-in "People who can view" function

Available since v. 3.16.*

Below REST APIs are now available to space administrators:

Available since v. 4.19.*

Added a new param “dateFormat” and date of last modification of permissions in content to the following REST APIs

General

Get full information about who can view/edit specific content

Available only for Confluence Administrators or Space Administrator

This API supports Pagination

This API supports optional parameters

The API returns a list of users and groups that have permissions that respect the hierarchy of permissions in the space (return information only for specific content)

If you want the complete information on the entire space tree up to this level of content, check out Get full information who can view/edit specific content (as tree from space to content level)

Method type: GET

URL: {CONFLUENCE_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/permission/content/{CONTENT_ID}/getInheritedContentPermissions

where {CONTENT_ID} is the content id

Example URL:

{CONFLUENCE_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/permission/content/1234567/getInheritedContentPermissions
{CONFLUENCE_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/permission/content/1234567/getInheritedContentPermissions?showContentDetails=true
{CONFLUENCE_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/permission/content/1234567/getInheritedContentPermissions?startAt=50&maxResults=100
{CONFLUENCE_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/permission/content/1234567/getInheritedContentPermissions?permissionType=view

Parameters:

showContentDetails - adds extra space and content information such as key, name, etc.
permissionType - view, edit or empty - returns data only for a specific permission (leave empty for full information)
startAt & maxResults - by default, it shows the first 50 people/groups
peopleWhoCanView - show permissions exactly like the built-in "People who can view" function (the response will display all people with direct permissions and with permissions granted by groups; the groups themselves will not be included in the response)
dateFormat - define date format for parameters creationDateFrom, creationDateTo and for JSON output field lastPermissionModificationDateString - default format ‘yyyy-MM-dd'

Response format: JSON

Example response:

{
	"spaceKey": "ds",
	"spaceName": "Demonstration Space",
	"level": 6,
	"lastPermissionModificationDate": 1724425510813,
    "lastPermissionModificationDateString": "2024-08-23 17:05:10",
	"permissions": {
		"view": {
			"groups": [
				"group_po",
				"confluence-administrators",
				"confluence-users"
			],
			"users": [
				"user",
				"admin"
			]
		},
		"edit": {
			"groups": [
				"confluence-administrators",
				"group_po",
				"confluence-users"
			],
			"users": [
				"admin",
				"user"
			]
		},
		"editGroupsTotal": 3,
		"viewGroupsTotal": 3,
		"viewUsersTotal": 2,
		"editUsersTotal": 2
	},
	"contentId": 65564,
	"contentType": "page",
	"contentCreatorName": "not exist",
	"contentName": "Get serious with a table (step 5 of 9)"
}

Get full information about who can view/edit specific content (as a tree from space to specific content)