Does the solution for suppressing notifications for content updates include attachments?  We are constantly adding/editing attachments to certain pages within a space and would like them to not receive the emails but still be able to watch the space.  

+1 the API should have the same capabilities as the user interface

At the very least update the REST API documentation to indicate how this is done. 

It's frustrating having to search forums for documentation that should live in the API reference eg https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-server-rest-api/

Propeties minorEdit doesn't work for  Create content  POST /rest/api/content Work only Update

{{}}{

{{ "type": "page",}}
{{ "title": "test_page*",}}
{{ "space": {}}
{{ "key": "wtis"}}
{{ },}}
{{ "version": {}}
{{ "number": 1,}}
{{ "minorEdit": true}}
{{ },}}
{{ "ancestors": [{}}
{{ "id": "956913"}}
{{ }],}}
{{ "body": {}}
{{ "storage": {}}
{{ "value": "<p>Test. </p>",}}
{{ "representation": "storage"}}
{{ }}}
{{ }}}
}

shaurya.chawla to prevent notifications being sent to watchers upon content update using the REST api , you need to specify the version field with the following properties

"version": {
   "number": incremented_version,
   "minorEdit": true
}

See the example curl command as stated in the earlier comments

 curl -v -X PUT -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8080/confluence/rest/api/content/${content_id}" \
        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        -d "{\
\"type\"    : \"page\", \
\"title\"   : \"DEV - all dev pages need this prefix\", \
\"version\" : { \
    \"number\" : 3, \
    \"message\": \"just adding a prefix\", \
    \"minorEdit\": true \
    } \
}"

hrehioui  I'm sorry I couldn't understand exactly what json field to add in version that would suppress/disable Notify watchers in confluence.

I have a script that calls update an existing conf page using PUT rest api and i used version like this:
"version": {"number": incremented_version}

But people who are subscribed to the whole space or just the updating page still receive email notification; every time there is an update.

This really needs to be documented!

I see minorEdit and hidden parameters in the reference examples but nothing in the documentation about them. Useful to know about this, thanks

This would be very helpful for us, too.

Can you implement the same solution as in JIRA, please ?

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-34423

We have a reporting tool that uploads customer analytics once a month. My work-around for the problem described in this ticket is to have the reporting tool upload to my personal space, and I then have to manually move it to the shared space. Otherwise everyone in our company gets hundreds of emails from me once a month and the less technical members of our company seemed to think this is something I do out of spite for them.
Please fix the API. :<

Any chance this work will be done? We maintain inventory pages that are frequently updated via the REST API and likewise this is generating a lot of noise for us.

We're in the process of migrating a lot of documentation to confluence. It's generated and then deployed using the REST API, and there are many pages involved. Every time we update and deploy this documentation, any watchers for that space get 1 email per updated page, which is extremely annoying. It would be nice if we could batch deploy these updates and then just send one notification out to watchers.

Is there a workaround possible?