Jenkins restoration from thinBackup plugin

jenkins_restore.py

import socket
import argparse
import mechanize


def get_args():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("--url", dest="url", required=True,
        help="Give the URL for jenkins backup restoration.")

    return parser.parse_args()


def create_browser(url):
    br = mechanize.Browser()
    br.set_handle_equiv(True)
    br.set_handle_redirect(True)
    br.set_handle_referer(True)
    br.set_handle_robots(False)
    br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
    br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]
    try:
        br.open(url)
        return br
    except Exception, e:
        print e


def run():
    args = get_args()
    socket.setdefaulttimeout(25)

    # Let's try our restore
    try:
        br = create_browser(args.url)
        br.select_form(nr=1)
        br.form["restorePlugins"] = ['on']
        br.submit()
    except Exception, e:
        print e

if __name__ == '__main__':
    run()