Python Jenkins is a python wrapper for the Jenkins REST API which aims to provide a more conventionally pythonic way of controlling a Jenkins server. It provides a higher-level API containing a number of convenience functions.

We like to use python-jenkins to automate our Jenkins servers. Here are some of the things you can use it for:

• Create new jobs
• Copy existing jobs
• Delete jobs
• Update jobs
• Get a job's build information
• Get Jenkins master version information
• Get Jenkins plugin information
• Start a build on a job
• Create nodes
• Enable/Disable nodes
• Get information on nodes
• Create/delete/reconfig views
• Put server in shutdown mode (quiet down)
• List running builds
• Delete builds
• Wipeout job workspace
• Create/delete/update folders¹
• Set the next build number²
• Install plugins
• and many more..

To install:

$ sudo python setup.py install

Online documentation:

• http://python-jenkins.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Bug report:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-jenkins

Repository:

• https://opendev.org/jjb/python-jenkins

Cloning:

• git clone https://opendev.org/jjb/python-jenkins

Patches are submitted via Gerrit at:

• https://review.opendev.org/#/q/project:jjb/python-jenkins

Please do not submit GitHub pull requests, they will be automatically closed.

The python-jenkins developers communicate in the #openstack-jjb channel on Freenode's IRC network.

More details on how you can contribute is available on our wiki at:

• https://docs.opendev.org/opendev/infra-manual/latest/developers.html

Be sure that you lint code before created an code review. The easiest way to do this is to install git pre-commit hooks.

Then install the required python packages using pip:

$ sudo pip install python-jenkins

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