How to get a list of installed Jenkins plugins with name and version pair

Question

How can I get a list of installed Jenkins plugins?

I searched the Jenkins Remote Access API document, but it was not found. Should I use Jenkins\' CLI? Is there a d

Answer 1

You can retrieve the information using the Jenkins Script Console which is accessible by visiting http://<jenkins-url>/script. (Given that you are logged in and have the required permissions).

Enter the following Groovy script to iterate over the installed plugins and print out the relevant information:

Jenkins.instance.pluginManager.plugins.each{
  plugin -> 
    println ("${plugin.getDisplayName()} (${plugin.getShortName()}): ${plugin.getVersion()}")
}

It will print the results list like this (clipped):

This solutions is similar to one of the answers above in that it uses Groovy, but here we are using the script console instead. The script console is extremely helpful when using Jenkins.

Update

If you prefer a sorted list, you can call this sort method:

def pluginList = new ArrayList(Jenkins.instance.pluginManager.plugins)
pluginList.sort { it.getShortName() }.each{
  plugin -> 
    println ("${plugin.getDisplayName()} (${plugin.getShortName()}): ${plugin.getVersion()}")
}

Adjust the Closure to your liking (e.g. here it is sorted by the shortName, in the example it is sorted by DisplayName)

Answer 2

Sharing another option found here with credentials

JENKINS_HOST=username:password@myhost.com:port
curl -sSL "http://$JENKINS_HOST/pluginManager/api/xml?depth=1&xpath=/*/*/shortName|/*/*/version&wrapper=plugins" | perl -pe 's/.*?<shortName>([\w-]+).*?<version>([^<]+)()(<\/\w+>)+/\1 \2\n/g'|sed 's/ /:/'

Answer 3

Behe's answer with sorting plugins did not work on my Jenkins machine. I received the error java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException due to trying to sort an immutable collection i.e. Jenkins.instance.pluginManager.plugins. Simple fix for the code:

List<String> jenkinsPlugins = new ArrayList<String>(Jenkins.instance.pluginManager.plugins);
jenkinsPlugins.sort { it.displayName }
              .each { plugin ->
                   println ("${plugin.shortName}:${plugin.version}")
              }

Use the http://<jenkins-url>/script URL to run the code.