Confluence - URL encoding is failing for CQL

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Hi All,

I am trying to encode the following URL with UTF-8 and tried to execute, but I got the “BadRequest” response.

https://api.atlassian.com/ex/confluence/my-client-id/rest/api/content/search?cql=lastmodified>="2021/10/01 19:57" AND lastmodified<"2022/02/18 06:56"&expand=version,history.previousVersion

Version 1:
https://api.atlassian.com/ex/confluence/my-client-id/rest/api/content/search?cql%3Dlastmodified%3E%3D%222021%2F10%2F01+19%3A57%22+AND+lastmodified%3C%222022%2F02%2F18+06%3A56%22%26expand%3Dversion%2Chistory.previousVersion

Version 2:
https%3A%2F%2Fapi.atlassian.com%2Fex%2Fconfluence%2Fmy-client-id%2Frest%2Fapi%2Fcontent%2Fsearch%3Fcql%3Dlastmodified%3E%3D%222021%2F10%2F01+19%3A57%22+AND+lastmodified%3C%222022%2F02%2F18+06%3A56%22%26expand%3Dversion%2Chistory.previousVersion

Neither of the above have worked.

May I know the correct way to format the query url?

Thanks
Ravi

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Hello @Ravi90

The encoded version of the space character is %20, not + (plus sign).

Do a Google search for HTML URL encoding for numerous articles on the topic.

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ok thanks @sunnyape, will check.

Thanks
Ravi

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Hi @Ravi90 ,

The URL encoding of lastmodified >= "2021/10/01 19:57" AND lastmodified < "2022/02/18 06:56" is lastmodified%20%3E%3D%20%222021%2F10%2F01%2019%3A57%22%20AND%20lastmodified%20%3C%20%222022%2F02%2F18%2006%3A56%22 so try invoking with:

https://api.atlassian.com/ex/confluence/my-client-id/rest/api/content/search?cql=lastmodified%20>%3D%20"2021%2F10%2F01%2019%3A57"%20AND%20lastmodified%20<%20"2022%2F02%2F18%2006%3A56"&expand=version,history.previousVersion

Most tech stacks provide utilities to encode URLs. For example, for Javascript you would call encodeURIComponent('lastmodified >= "2021/10/01 19:57" AND lastmodified < "2022/02/18 06:56"'). See encodeURIComponent() - JavaScript | MDN.

Regards,
Dugald

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ok thanks @dmorrow