TeamCity REST API Reference 2023.05 Help

Manage Finished Builds

In this article, we explore common use cases of managing finished builds via TeamCity REST API:

  • Operating build tags.

  • Pining and unpinning builds.

  • Retrieving artifacts and build parameters.

  • Labeling builds.

Manage Build Tags

To get tags for a specific build, use:

/app/rest/builds/<buildLocator>/tags

where buildLocator is a BuildLocator entity. The endpoint responds with a Tags entity.

To add new tags, use:

/app/rest/builds/<buildLocator>/tags

It accepts either Tags:

<tags> <tag name="tag1"/> <tag name="tag2"/> </tags>
{ "tag": [ { "name": "tag1" }, { "name": "tag2" } ] }

or a text/plain tag name as a body.

To replace existing tags, send Tags entity via

/app/rest/builds/<buildLocator>/tags

Pin Build

To check if the build is pinned, use:

/app/rest/builds/<buildLocator>/pin

To pin a build, use:

/app/rest/builds/<buildLocator>/pin

Any text (text/plain) sent with this request will be used as a comment.

To unpin a build, use:

/app/rest/builds/<buildLocator>/pin

Any text (text/plain) sent with this request will be used as a comment.

Manage VCS Labels

To find all existing VCS labels of a build, use:

/app/rest/builds?locator=<buildLocator>&fields=build(id,vcsLabels:$long)

Or use a dedicated endpoint:

/app/rest/builds/<buildLocator>/vcsLabels?fields=status,text

To add a new VCS label, use:

/app/rest/builds/<buildLocator>/vcsLabels?locator=<vcsRootInstanceLocator>&fields=build(id,vcsLabels)

where vcsRootInstanceLocator is typed as VcsRootInstanceLocator. The request accepts text/plain.

Get Build Artifacts

To get a content of a specific artifact, use:

/app/rest/builds/<build_locator>/artifacts/content/<path>

where path can be empty for the root of the build's artifacts or be a path within the build's artifacts. The path can span into the archive content, for example, dir/path/archive.zip!/path_within_archive.

Media-Type of response is usually application/octet-stream or a more specific type (determined by the artifact file extension).

To get the file metadata, use:

/app/rest/builds/<build_locator>/artifacts/metadata/<path>

To fetch all child items for a directory or archive, use:

/app/rest/builds/<build_locator>/artifacts/children/<path>

To download a certain archived subpath, use:

/app/rest/builds/<build_locator>/artifacts/archived/<path>?locator=pattern:<wildcard>

An optional locator's parameter is wildcard that allows limiting files only to those matching the wildcard. artifact relative name supports referencing files under archives using the !/ delimiter after the archive name.

For example, to download all artifacts in .zip and .txt formats, use:

/app/rest/builds/<build_locator>/artifacts/archived/<path>?locator=pattern:(*.zip,*.txt)&name=result.zip

Media-Type of response is application/zip.

Get Build Parameters of Finished Build

To get resulting build parameters of a specific finished build, use:

/app/rest/builds/id:<build_id>/resulting-properties
Last modified: 22 February 2023