Download the latest successful build artifacts from Jenkins using Python 3

download-latest-jenkins-artifact.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Download the latest successful build artifacts from Jenkins using Python 3
#     John McGehee 1/25/2016
#
# Based on the Python 2 version by supertom: https://gist.github.com/supertom/2759847

import argparse
import codecs
import io
import json
import os
import sys
try:
    import pycurl
    isPyCurlAvailable = True
except ImportError:
    import urllib.request
    isPyCurlAvailable = False

    
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Download the latest successful build artifacts from Jenkins.")
parser.add_argument('jobs', metavar='jobName', nargs='+',
                    help="List of job names from which to fetch the latest artifact, "
                         "including folder name(s).  For example: 'folderName1/folderName2/jobName'.")
args = parser.parse_args()

assert isinstance(args.jobs, list) and args.jobs, "A list of at least one job must be specified"

##########
# configuration
build_host = "jenkins.johnnado.com"
lastBuildAPIURL = "http://" + build_host + "/job/%s/lastSuccessfulBuild/api/json"
lastBuildArtifactLURL = "http://" + build_host + "/job/%s/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/%s"
localSaveDir = "."
# Default for .tgz artifacts; change if yours are different, for example .apk files.
artifactExtension=".internal.tgz"

##########
# UDFs

def downloadFile(url, filename):
    print("==> Downloading File: ", filename, " URL: ", url)
    if isPyCurlAvailable:
        fp = open(filename, "wb")
        curl = pycurl.Curl()
        curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
        curl.setopt(pycurl.WRITEDATA, fp)
        curl.perform()
        curl.close()
        fp.close()
    else:
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename)

###########
# start

print("Fetching files from Jenkins")

if not os.path.exists(localSaveDir):
    print("==> Creating Dir %s" % (localSaveDir))
    os.makedirs(localSaveDir)

for job in args.jobs:
    job = job.strip('/')
    job = job.replace('/', '/job/')

    jobURL = lastBuildAPIURL % (job)
    if isPyCurlAvailable:
        buf = io.BytesIO()
        c = pycurl.Curl()
        c.setopt(c.URL, jobURL)
        c.setopt(c.WRITEFUNCTION, buf.write)
        c.perform()
        jsonbytes = buf.getvalue()
        buf.close()
    else:
        with urllib.request.urlopen(jobURL) as response:
            jsonbytes = response.read() # a `bytes` object

    jsonstr = jsonbytes.decode('utf-8')
    jd = json.loads(jsonstr)
    artifacts = jd['artifacts']

    for art in artifacts:
        if art['fileName'].find(artifactExtension) > -1:
            artURL = lastBuildArtifactLURL % (job,art['relativePath'])
            downloadFile(str(artURL),localSaveDir + "/" + str(art['fileName']))

I added a comment documenting artifactExtension. Thanks @parkerlreed!

Cheers!