Getting the build description from a URL

[grayaii]

I'm trying to get the build description of the lastSuccessfulBuild.

This usually works:
http://localhost:8080/jenkins/view/All/job/MyJob/lastSuccessfulBuild/api/xml?xpath=*/description/text()

The problem is that people sometimes put html tags in their descriptions.
For instance:
9.0.0.10027 <BR> Uploaded to Gold Master Server

When that happens, the xpath fails with the message:
XPath "*/description/text()" matched 5 nodes. Create XPath that only matches
one, or use the "wrapper" query parameter to wrap them all under a root
element.

I use the "wrapper query parameter" to return raw xml, but then I have to
parse it out, and parsing it out is getting more tricky than it should.

Is there an easy way to get the *description* of the lastSuccessfulBuild
from a URL?

Thanks!

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[graya2]

LOL. I ran across my own post from 5 years ago. I can answer it myself now:

from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins
import jenkinsapi
J = Jenkins('http://myjenkins:8080/', username='user', password='password')
job = J['my-job']
b = job.get_build(383)
b.get_description()



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