How to get the API Token for Jenkins

Question

I am trying to use the jenkins rest api. In the instructions it says I need to have the api key. I have looked all over the configuration pages to find it. How do i get the

Answer 1

The non UI way to do this post Jenkins 2.129 is:

curl 'https:///me/descriptorByName/jenkins.security.ApiTokenProperty/generateNewToken' \
--data 'newTokenName=foo' \
--user username:Password

which returns:

{
  "status": "ok",
  "data": {
    "tokenName": "foo",
    "tokenUuid": "",
    "tokenValue": ""
  }
}

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Pre Jenkins 2.129

curl http://:@/me/configure