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

I think these are not good enough answer(s)... many involve a couple of extra under-the-hood steps. Here's how I did it.

sudo apt-get install jq

...because the JSON output needs to be consumed after you call the API.

#!/bin/bash
server_addr = 'jenkins'
server_port = '8080'

curl -s -k "http://${server_addr}:${server_port}/pluginManager/api/json?depth=1" \
  | jq '.plugins[]|{shortName, version,longName,url}' -c | sort \
  > plugin-list

echo "dude, here's your list: "
cat plugin-list