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Want to read xml file from published artifacts in azure devops build pipeline

I am using the azure-DevOps build pipeline to run & publish the postman Newman report as pipeline artifacts. my pipeline does publish pipeline artifacts (HTML-reports of postman and also gives Newman report in XML files).

My requirement is that using azure-DevOps API I want to read the XML file. & this API I have to call from my program (nodeJs/Python).

Any idea how? Thanks in Advance Note: I see ADO is still working on fileId (not sure how to get fileID) https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/vsts-rest-api-specs/issues/381

Solution

  • The artifact published in azure pipeline provides dowload url to get the files. You can get the download url directly from the build summary portal. See below:

    Go the published artifacts-->Click the 3dots of the file you want to download

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    You can call the download url directly to read the xml file in your code. See below example in powershell script:

    $url = "https://dev.azure.com/{org}/_apis/resources/Containers/{containerId}/{artifactName}?itemPath=artifactName%2Fbuild.xml"

$PAT="Personal access token"
$base64AuthInfo= [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(":$($PAT)"))

$xmlContent = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Headers @{authorization = "Basic $base64AuthInfo"} -Method get

    If you donot want to get the download url from the UI portal. You can call Artifacts - Get Artifact to get the container id. Then you can get the download url for the xml file after you get the container id.

    GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/build/builds/{buildId}/artifacts?artifactName={artifactName}&api-version=6.0

    See below example result from above rest api.

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    Download url:

    https://dev.azure.com/{org}/_apis/resources/Containers/{containerId}/{artifactName}?itemPath={artifactName}%2F{xmlfileName.xml}