What is the easiest way to extract sprint start and end dates from the JIRA db?

Question

I\'m trying to extract the start and end days of my sprints from the Jira database. This would seem like a simple task, but it really (as far as I have found out at least) i

Answer 1

I don't recommend accessing the JIRA database directly if it can be avoided. The undocumented JIRA Agile REST API such as rest/greenhopper/1.0/rapid/charts/sprintreport.json?rapidViewId=652&sprintId=577 where rapidViewId is the board id, gives you the Sprint information. This and other REST resources can be seen in the jira-python library at http://jira-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/