Configure a generic task server

Last modified: 17 March 2022

PyCharm supports integration with many task trackers out of the box. However, if you use a tracker that PyCharm does not support yet, you can still integrate it configuring a so called generic server.

This tutorial describes how to:

  • Connect to JIRA Cloud as a generic server.

  • Obtain the list of issues assigned to you.

  • For each issue, get its ID, title, description, date and time when the issue was created and updated.

Before you start configuring a connection to your tracker, note that PyCharm:

  • Supports only services with REST API.

  • Supports either Basic HTTP authentication or sending preliminary requests to the server.

  • Supports GET and POST requests.

  • Does not support pagination in server responses.