How to get a list of installed Jenkins plugins with name and version pair

Question

How can I get a list of installed Jenkins plugins?

I searched the Jenkins Remote Access API document, but it was not found. Should I use Jenkins\' CLI? Is there a d

Answer 1

With curl and jq:

curl -s /pluginManager/api/json?depth=1 \
  | jq -r '.plugins[] | "\(.shortName):\(.version)"' \
  | sort

This command gives output in a format used by special Jenkins plugins.txt file which enables you to pre-install dependencies (e.g. in a docker image):

ace-editor:1.1
ant:1.8
apache-httpcomponents-client-4-api:4.5.5-3.0

Example of a plugins.txt: https://github.com/hoto/jenkinsfile-examples/blob/master/source/jenkins/usr/share/jenkins/plugins.txt