A shell script for kicking off Travis-CI builds. Requires 3 environment vars to be set.

TravisBuildKicker.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Requires 3 env vars to be set:
# ACCESS_TOKEN - your Travis-CI auth token. https://medium.com/@aflyingcaveman/retrieving-your-travis-ci-api-access-token-bc706b2b625a
# REPO_TO_KICK - the name of the repo to kick.
# OWNER_OF_REPO - your repo owner name.

body='{
    "request":{
        "branch":"master",
        "message":"Build was kicked by API request"
        }
    }';

curl -s -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Accept: application/json" \
    -H "Travis-API-Version: 3" \
    -H "Authorization: token ${ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
    -Body ${body} \
    https://api.travis-ci.org/repo/${OWNER_OF_REPO}%2F${REPO_TO_KICK}/requests;