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markjlorenz / jenkins-api-start-and-monitor-a-build
Created July 23, 2016 18:11
Start a job with the Jenkins API and monitor it's console output
#! /usr/bin/env bash
JENKINS_URL="localhost:8080"
JOB_NAME="YourJobName
USER_NAME="api"
USER_TOKEN="f6706YOURUSERTOKENd2c51"
QUEUE_URL=$(curl --silent "http://${JENKINS_URL}/job/${JOB_NAME}/build" \
--user "${USER_NAME}:${USER_TOKEN}" \
--data "token=${JOB_TOKEN}" -XPOST \