Accessing Cloudbees Jenkins URL without authentication

Question

I have an application that monitors CI jobs, and I've added a jenkins installation to my account. Typically, this application is internal to the company I work at, but our jenkins servers aren't accessible outside the LAN.

To lookup the status of a build, I to a python urllib.urlopen on

http://hostname/job/job_name/lastBuild/api/json  

then parse the json result

When trying to connect to https://webiken.ci.cloudbees.com, I get an HTTPError because the URL requires authentication. Is there anyway to configure my jenkins to be public?

Thanks,

Sam

Answer 1

you can use HTTP Basic authentication with your cloudbees credentials to access the API :

curl https://webiken.ci.cloudbees.com/job//api/json --user ndeloof@cloudbees.com:

Answer 2

Also see this wiki page on how to make your Jenkins instance public.