api4jenkins 1.2

Jenkins REST API client

Api4jenkins

Api4jenkins is a Jenkins REST API client for Python access to Jenkins Remote access API programmatically. It provides full functionalities to control Job, Build, Credential, View, Queue, Plugins, Node, and System operation.

Installation

python -m pip install api4jenkins

Quick start

>>> from api4jenkins import Jenkins
>>> j = Jenkins('http://127.0.0.1:8080/', auth=('admin', 'admin'))
>>> j.version
'2.176.2'
>>> xml = """<?xml version='1.1' encoding='UTF-8'?>
... <project>
...   <builders>
...     <hudson.tasks.Shell>
...       <command>echo $JENKINS_VERSION</command>
...     </hudson.tasks.Shell>
...   </builders>
... </project>"""
>>> j.create_job('freestylejob', xml)
>>> job = j.get_job('freestylejob')
>>> print(job)
<FreeStyleProject: http://127.0.0.1:8080/job/freestylejob/>
>>> print(job.parent)
<Jenkins: http://127.0.0.1:8080/>
>>> print(job.jenkins)
<Jenkins: http://127.0.0.1:8080/>
>>> import time
>>> item = job.build()
>>> while not item.get_build():
...      time.sleep(1)
>>> build = item.get_build()
>>> print(build)
<FreeStyleBuild: http://127.0.0.1:8080/job/freestylejob/1/>
>>> for line in build.progressive_output():
...     print(line)
...
Started by user admin
Running as SYSTEM
Building in workspace /var/jenkins_home/workspace/freestylejob
[freestylejob] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/jenkins2989549474028065940.sh
+ echo $JENKINS_VERSION
2.176.2
Finished: SUCCESS
>>> build.building
False
>>> build.result
'SUCCESS'

Documentation

API Reference and User Guide is available on Read the Docs