How to schedule a jenkins job trough url?

Question

I'm implementing a way to trigger jenkins jobs and to schedule them with php in my site. The way I'm doing the "on-the-fly" trigger is by simply calling the url of the job with some parameters (I'm also using Build Token Root Plugin so I can trigger the jobs without authentication).

Example below:

$data = array(
  'job' => 'JOB NAME',
  'token' => 'job_token',
  'parameter1' => 'some parameter',
);

$options = array(
  'method' => 'POST',
  'data' => drupal_http_build_query($data),
  'timeout' => 15,
  'headers' => array('Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'),
);

drupal_http_request('http://localhost:8080/buildByToken/buildWithParameters', $options);

I can trigger the job with multiple parameters but I need to schedule the build. In jenkins there is this option "Build periodically" but it's not a parameter.

Anyone knows a way to schedule the job trough the url way?

Thanks!

Christopher Orr Christopher Orr · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-15T14:17:16

You can add ?delay=300secs to the end of the URL to schedule the job to start in five minutes.

Note that sec and secs are currently the only accepted duration units.

How to schedule a jenkins job trough url?

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