How to trigger Jenkins builds remotely and to pass parameters

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I am invoking a Jenkins job remotely using    wget http    lt ServerIP gt  8080 job Test-Jenkins build token DOIT   Here Test-Jenkins job is invoked and DOIT is the security token that I have used   Now I need to pass some parameters to the build xml file of this job i e  Test-Jenkins   I have not yet figured out how to pass the variables yet

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You can trigger Jenkins builds remotely and to pass parameters by using the following query.

JENKINS_URL/job/job-name/buildWithParameters?token=TOKEN_NAME&param_name1=value&param_name1=value

JENKINS_URL (can be) = https://<your domain name or server address>

TOKE_NAME can be created using configure tab

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To add to this question  I found out that you don t have to use the  buildWithParameters endpoint   In my scenario  I have a script that triggers Jenkins to run tests after a deployment  Some of these tests require extra info about the deployment to work correctly   If I tried to use  buildWithParameters on a job that does not expect parameters  the job would not run  I don t want to go in and edit every job to require fake parameters just to get the jobs to run   Instead  I found you can pass parameters like this   curl -X POST --data-urlencode  token   TOKEN   --data-urlencode json    parameter      name    myParam    value    TEST      https   jenkins corp job  JENKINS JOB build   With this json     it will pass the param myParam with value TEST to the job whenever the call is made  However  the Jenkins job will still run even if it is not expecting the parameter myParam   The only scenario this does not cover is if the job has a parameter that is NOT passed in the json  Even if the job has a default value set for the parameter  it will fail to run the job  In this scenario you will run into the following error message   stack trace when you call  build   java lang IllegalArgumentException  No such parameter definition  myParam  I realize that this answer is several years late  but I hope this may be useful info for someone else   Note  I am using Jenkins v2 163

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You can simply try it with a jenkinsfile  Create a Jenkins job with following pipeline script   pipeline       agent any      parameters           booleanParam defaultValue  true  description      name   userFlag              stages           stage  Trigger                 steps                   script                       println  triggering the pipeline from a rest call                                                        stage  foo                 steps                   echo  flag    params userFlag                                      Build the job once manually to get it configured  amp  just create a http POST request to the Jenkins job as follows   The format is http   server job myjob buildWithParameters PARAMETER Value  curl http   admin test123 localhost 30637 job apd-test buildWithParameters userFlag false --request POST

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When we have to send multiple trigger parameters to jenkins job  the following commands works  curl -X POST -i -u  quot auto user quot   quot xxxauthentication tokenxxx quot   quot JENKINS URL view tests job helloworld buildWithParameters param1 162 amp param2 store quot

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To pass use the variables  first create parameters in the configure section of Jenkins  Parameters that you use can be of type text  String  file  etc   After creating them  use the variable reference in the fields you want to   For example  I have configured created two variables for Email-subject and Email-recipentList  and I have used their reference in the EMail-ext plugin  attached screenshot

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curl -H  quot Jenkins-Crumb   lt your crumb data gt  quot  -u  quot  lt username gt   lt password gt  quot   quot http    lt your jenkins url gt  buildWithParameters token  lt your remote api name gt   lt parameterA gt   lt val parameter A gt  amp  lt parameterB gt   lt val parameterB gt  quot  You can change following parameters as you want   lt your crumb data gt   lt username gt   lt password gt   lt your jenkins url gt   lt your remote api name gt   lt parameterA gt   lt parameterB gt   lt val parameter A gt   lt val parameter B gt   Note  Placing double quotes may be critical  Pay attention  please

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See Jenkins documentation  Parameterized Build  Below is the line you are interested in   http   server job myjob buildWithParameters token TOKEN amp PARAMETER Value

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In your Jenkins job configuration  tick the box named  quot This build is parameterized quot   click the  quot Add Parameter quot  button and select the  quot String Parameter quot  drop down value  Now define your parameter - example   Now you can use your parameter in your job   build pipeline  example   Next to trigger the build with own custom parameter  invoke the following URL  using either POST or GET   http   JENKINS SERVER ADDRESS job YOUR JOB NAME buildWithParameters myparam myparam value

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