Jenkins command to get number of builds in queue

Question

I am trying to get the number of builds in the Jenkins Build Queue.

May I know the Jenkins command to get the number of builds running in the queue ?

Answer 1

This single bash variable definition using the awesome "jq" utility was all I needed to get the queue length:

  QUEUE_SIZE=$(curl -s -k http:///queue/api/json | jq '.items | length')

Hope this helps.