Calling a Jenkins build from outside of Jenkins?

Question

I am new to Jenkins, and I\'m not sure if this is possible, but I would like to set up a web interface where somebody could click \"Start Job\" and this will tell Jenkins to

Answer 1

Install Generic Webhook Trigger plugin. Select generic webhook trigger in build trigger actions. Generate a random string and paste in token. Now your job can be triggered with a http request to the following url.

http://JENKINS_URL/generic-webhook-trigger/invoke?token=TOKEN_VALUE

replace your jenkins url and token value

Answer 2

curl -H POST http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@JENKINS_HOST:PORT/job/JOB_NAME/build?token=YOUR_TOKEN

Set YOUR_TOKEN at job configuration -> build triggers -> Trigger builds remotely.

Answer 3

Here is a link to the documentation: Jenkins Remote Access API.

Check out the Submitting jobs section.

In your job configuration you setup a token and then create a POST request to JENKINS_URL/job/JOBNAME/build?token=TOKEN. That's probably the most basic usage.

Answer 4

Aha, I found it in the documentation. So simple:

http://YOURHOST/jenkins/job/PROJECTNAME/build

Answer 5

I needed to add parameters and I wanted to do it over https. It took me a while but the following worked for me:

curl --request POST --url 'https://HOST_NAME/job/JOB_NAME/buildWithParameters?token=TOKEN'  --header 'cache-control: no-cache' --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data 'name1=value1&name2=value2'

Answer 6

There is a good sample of using the above API from Python. The project is called Python Jenkins, and you may find it here: link