Start a job with the Jenkins API and monitor it's console output

jenkins-api-start-and-monitor-a-build

#! /usr/bin/env bash

JENKINS_URL="localhost:8080"
JOB_NAME="YourJobName
USER_NAME="api"
USER_TOKEN="f6706YOURUSERTOKENd2c51"

QUEUE_URL=$(curl --silent "http://${JENKINS_URL}/job/${JOB_NAME}/build" \
  --user "${USER_NAME}:${USER_TOKEN}" \
  --data "token=${JOB_TOKEN}" -XPOST \
  --dump-header - \
  --output /dev/null \
  | grep Location \
  | awk '{print $2}' \
  | tr -d '\r\n'
)
echo "${QUEUE_URL}api/json"

BUILD_URL=''
while [ ! -n "$BUILD_URL" ]; do
  BUILD_URL=$(
    curl --silent "${QUEUE_URL}api/json" \
      --user "${USER_NAME}:${USER_TOKEN}" \
      | jq -r '.executable.url'
  )
  sleep 1
done
echo $BUILD_URL

curl --silent "$BUILD_URL/consoleText" \
  --user "${USER_NAME}:${USER_TOKEN}"