Is it possible to retrieve historical build or user build information through API

[Michael W]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a report on which builds each team member has kicked off over time.  The report would have a job column, user column, and number column for number of deploys per user of that job. Does anyone know if the API supports this?  I google'd some info that was 3 years old that said historical build info was not available in the API.  When I look at the API options on the build console page it seems to only retrieve in-progress information.  I also looked under People for the specific users and build history but couldn't find any valid API calls there either that would return data.

Thanks

[Victor Martinez]

Hi,

IIUC, open your <JENKINS_URL>/api/xml?depth=2 to see the whole dashboard view in XML format, although it might be a bit tricky if you use nested folders though.

Regarding a particular job and it's historical build:

- <JENKINS_URL>/job/<job_name>/api/xml?depth=1 , it should provide the whole build history of a specific job name called <job_name> and the xml tag 'cause' should provide how it was built and also the user in case it was triggered manually.

Regarding the user information:

- <JENKINS_URL>/asynchPeople/api/xml?depth=1

There are some more details below:

- https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API

Cheers