From Jenkins, how do I get a list of the currently running jobs in JSON?

Question

I can find out just about everything about my Jenkins server via the Remote API, but not the list of currently running jobs.

This,

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Answer 1

Bit of a hack but I think you can infer what jobs are currently running by looking at the color key in the job objects when you do a GET at /jenkins/api/json?pretty=true. If the 'ball' icon for a given job in Jenkins is animated, we know it's running.

Have a look at the array of job objects in the JSON response:

{
 ...
  "jobs" : [
    {
      "name" : "Test Job 1",
      "url" : "http://localhost:8000/jenkins/job/Test%20Job%201/",
      "color" : "blue"
    },
    {
      "name" : "Test Job 2",
      "url" : "http://localhost:8000/jenkins/job/Test%20Job%202/",
      "color" : "blue_anime"
    }
  ...
}

In this case "color" : "blue_anime" indicates that the job is currently running, and "color" : "blue" indicates that the job is not running.

Hope this helps.