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Export/import jobs in Jenkins using jenkins-cli.jar and user authentication

There are many answers to this question but my question is slightly different.

What I tried

   java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://<user>:<API_Token>@server get-job myjob > myjob.xml
   java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://<user>:<password>@server get-job myjob > myjob.xml

But I got the error anonymous user error. So, how can authenticate user using jenkins-cli.jar command ?

hudson.security.AccessDeniedException2: anonymous is missing the Job/ExtendedRead permission
        at hudson.security.ACL.checkPermission(ACL.java:63)

I also tried,

$ curl -u <user>:<API_Token> http://server/ get-job myjob > myjob.xml

But, the it just dumps whole HTML page instead of job.xml file

Solution

  • You may sometimes need to log in first:

    java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -noCertificateCheck -s https://localhost login --username=exporter --password=mypass

    java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -noCertificateCheck -s https://localhost list-jobs

    java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -noCertificateCheck -s https://localhost get-job myjob > myjob.xml