How to request for the crumb issuer for Jenkins

Question

I want to use the Jenkins Remote API, and I am looking for safe solution. I came across Prevent Cross Site Request Forgery exploits and I want to use it, but I

Answer 1

Or you can use Python and requests instead

req = requests.get('http://JENKINS_URL/crumbIssuer/api/xml?xpath=concat(//crumbRequestField,":",//crumb)', auth=(username, password))
print(req.text)

will give you the name and the crumb:

Jenkins-Crumb:e2e41f670dc128f378b2a010b4fcb493