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id: jenkinsapi
version: "0.3.23"
license: MIT license
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# jenkinsapi — A Python API for accessing resources on a Jenkins continuous-integration server.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 896.0K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Jenkinsapi wraps Jenkins' REST API into Python objects, making it straightforward to automate Jenkins administration and CI/CD tasks from Python scripts. Instead of crafting raw HTTP requests, you work with familiar Python objects representing jobs, builds, nodes, views, and credentials. The library handles authentication, request/response serialization, and common patterns like polling for build completion or searching artifacts.

Typical use cases include scripting job creation and deletion, triggering builds programmatically, querying build results and artifacts, managing Jenkins nodes and credentials, and integrating Jenkins into larger automation workflows. It depends only on pytz and requests, making it lightweight to install. The project is actively maintained, supports modern Python versions (3.10–3.14), and carries no known security vulnerabilities.

Use it for:

- Automate creation, deletion, and configuration of Jenkins jobs from Python scripts without manual UI interaction.
- Trigger builds and poll for completion status programmatically, enabling orchestration of multi-stage CI/CD pipelines.
- Search for and download build artifacts by criteria, then install them to custom directory structures for testing or deployment.
- Manage Jenkins build nodes, views, and credentials programmatically as part of infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Query job and build history by source code revision to correlate CI results with version control events.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides a Python wrapper around Jenkins' REST API, letting you programmatically manage jobs, builds, nodes, credentials, and artifacts on a Jenkins server.

Yes. Jenkinsapi is actively maintained, carries no known vulnerabilities, has low install friction, and is widely used (top 5000 PyPI packages). It's the standard Python client for Jenkins automation. Install it if you need to script Jenkins administration or integrate Jenkins into Python-based CI/CD workflows.

## Install

pip install jenkinsapi
uv add jenkinsapi
poetry add jenkinsapi

## Installing jenkinsapi

Before you install: Low friction: pure Python wheel with only two runtime dependencies (pytz and requests). Actively maintained with a release within the last 115 days. Supports current Python versions (3.10–3.14).

License in practice: MIT license (permissive) means you can use, modify, and distribute this package freely in both open-source and commercial projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install jenkinsapi

from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins

server = Jenkins('http://jenkins-server', username='user', password='token')
job = server.get_job('my-job')
job.disable()

Requires a running Jenkins server accessible at a known URL; authentication credentials (username and API token or password) are needed.

Verify before relying:

- Whether job deletion actually requires disabling Cross-Site scripting protection on all Jenkins versions or only some.
- Whether the library handles Jenkins plugin compatibility issues beyond the documented NestedViews plugin.
- Specific port or endpoint configuration required to connect to a Jenkins instance.

## Package facts

- License: MIT license (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 896.0K/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

jenkins automation python, jenkins rest api client, jenkins job management, ci/cd pipeline control, jenkins build scripting, jenkins server integration, jenkins task automation, ci-cd, jenkins-automation, rest-api-client

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