jenkinsapi

About this library

Jenkins is the market leading continuous integration system, originally created by Kohsuke Kawaguchi.

Jenkins (and its predecessor Hudson) are useful projects for automating common development tasks (e.g. unit-testing, production batches) - but they are somewhat Java-centric. | Jenkinsapi makes scripting Jenkins tasks a breeze by wrapping the REST api into familiar python objects. | Here is a list of some of the most commonly used functionality

• Add, remove, and query Jenkins jobs

• Control pipeline execution

  • Query the results of a completed build
  • Block until jobs are complete or run jobs asyncronously
  • Get objects representing the latest builds of a job

• Artifact management

  • Search for artifacts by simple criteria
  • Install artifacts to custom-specified directory structures

• Search for builds by source code revision

• Create, destroy, and monitor

  • Build nodes (Webstart and SSH slaves)
  • Views (including nested views using NestedViews Jenkins plugin)
  • Credentials (username/password and ssh key)

• Authentication support for username and password
• Manage jenkins and plugin installation

Full library capabilities are outlined in the Documentation

Known issues

• Job deletion operations fail unless Cross-Site scripting protection is disabled.

For other issues, please refer to the support URL

Important Links

• Support and bug-reports
• Source Code
• Documentation
• Releases

Installation

Egg-files for this project are hosted on PyPi. Most Python users should be able to use pip or setuptools to automatically install this project.

Using Pip or Setuptools

Most users can do the following:

pip install jenkinsapi

Or:

easy_install jenkinsapi

Both of these techniques can be combined with virtualenv to create an application-specific installation.

Using your operating-system's package manager

Ubuntu users can now use apt to install this package:

apt-get install python-jenkinsapi

Beware that this technique will get a somewhat older version of Jenkinsapi.

Example

JenkinsAPI is intended to map the objects in Jenkins (e.g. Builds, Views, Jobs) into easily managed Python objects:

from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins
J = Jenkins('http://localhost:8080')
print(J.version) # 1.542
print(J.keys()) # foo, test_jenkinsapi
print(J.get('test_jenkinsapi')) # <jenkinsapi.job.Job test_jenkinsapi>
print(J.get('test_jenkinsapi').get_last_good_build()) # <jenkinsapi.build.Build test_jenkinsapi #77>

More examples available on Github

Testing

If you have installed the test dependencies on your system already, you can run the testsuite with the following command:

uv python sync
uv run pytest -sv --cov=jenkinsapi --cov-report=term-missing --cov-report=xml jenkinsapi_tests

Otherwise using a virtualenv is recommended. Setuptools will automatically fetch missing test dependencies:

uv venv
uv python install
uv run pytest -sv --cov=jenkinsapi --cov-report=term-missing --cov-report=xml jenkinsapi_tests

Development

• Make sure that you have Java installed. Jenkins will be automatically downloaded and started during tests.
• Create virtual environment for development
• Install package in development mode

uv sync

• Make your changes, write tests and check your code

uv run pytest -sv

Python versions

The project has been tested against Python versions:

• 3.8 - 3.13

Jenkins versions

Project tested on both stable (LTS) and latest Jenkins versions.

Project Contributors

• Aleksey Maksimov (ctpeko3a@gmail.com)
• Salim Fadhley (sal@stodge.org)
• Ramon van Alteren (ramon@vanalteren.nl)
• Ruslan Lutsenko (ruslan.lutcenko@gmail.com)
• Cleber J Santos (cleber@simplesconsultoria.com.br)
• William Zhang (jollychang@douban.com)
• Victor Garcia (bravejolie@gmail.com)
• Bradley Harris (bradley@ninelb.com)
• Kyle Rockman (kyle.rockman@mac.com)
• Sascha Peilicke (saschpe@gmx.de)
• David Johansen (david@makewhat.is)
• Misha Behersky (bmwant@gmail.com)
• Clinton Steiner (clintonsteiner@gmail.com)

Please do not contact these contributors directly for support questions! Use the GitHub tracker instead.