Pulls your currently "In Progress" tasks from a JIRA instance.

current-tasks.py

!/usr/bin/env python

# current-tasks.py
# author: Anthony McClosky - http://amcclosky.com

import requests
import json

JIRA_ROOT_URL = "jira.example.com"
JIRA_API_ENDPOINT = "http://%s/rest/api/2.0.alpha1/" % JIRA_ROOT_URL


USERNAME = "username"
PASSWORD = "pass"

def get_current_jira_tasks(username, password):
    jql = "assignee = currentUser() AND status = \"In Progress\""
    data = {'jql': jql}
    task_response = requests.get(JIRA_API_ENDPOINT + "search", params=data, auth=(username, password))

    search_results = json.loads(task_response.content)

    issue_ids = [ issue.get('key') for issue in search_results.get('issues') ]

    for issue_id in issue_ids:
        issue_response = requests.get(JIRA_API_ENDPOINT + "issue/%s" % issue_id, auth=(username, password))
        issue = json.loads(issue_response.content)

        data = {
            'issue_id': issue_id,
            'name': issue.get('fields').get('summary').get('value'),
            'url': "http://%s/browse/%s" % (JIRA_ROOT_URL, issue_id)
        }

        print "[%(issue_id)s] %(name)s : %(url)s" % data

if __name__ == '__main__':
    get_current_jira_tasks(USERNAME, PASSWORD)