Jenkins Remote Access API can be used to do things like -
- Retrieving information about jobs, views, nodes, builds, etc. from Jenkins for programmatic consumption.
- Trigger a build (both parameterized & non-parameterized), stop/abort a build, enable/disable a Job, group/remove jobs into/from views, etc.
- Create/copy/modify/delete jobs.
and many other programming language-specific functionalities. It has wrappers for main programming languages like - Python, Ruby & Java. It can be triggered via CURL as below -
Jobs without parameters
Simply an HTTP POST on JENKINS_URL/job/JOBNAME/build.
Jobs with parameters
Simple example - sending "String Parameters":
curl JENKINS_URL/job/JOB_NAME/buildWithParameters --user USER:TOKEN --data id=123 --data verbosity=high
