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circleci-cli | Powerful CircleCI CLI via pure bash

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A pure bash, feature rich command line interface for CircleCI.

Sample use cases:

  • Programmatically interact with the CircleCI API
  • OS X notification integration (i.e. each git push to GitHub notifies you about the eventual
CircleCI build success or failure) * Add alias: alias gpn='f() { git push && { sleep 10 ; circleci notify; } &; }; f' * Push with notifications: gpn
  • Perform advanced filtering/querying upon JSON responses to do things that are not possible via
the UI * View build numbers of successful builds: circleci builds --filter '.[] | select(.status=="success") | .build_num'
  • Perform advanced filtering upon JSON responses to do piped operations back into circleci-cli
and/or other CLIs (e.g. find failed builds and re-trigger them, find successful builds and feed into a dashboard)

Installation

Via brew:

$ brew tap rockymadden/rockymadden
$ brew install circleci-cli

Via curl:

$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rockymadden/circleci-cli/master/src/circleci
$ chmod 755 circleci
PROTIP: You are responsible for having stedolan/jq and github/hub on your $PATH.

Via make:

$ git clone git@github.com:rockymadden/circleci-cli.git
$ cd circleci-cli
$ make install bindir=/path/to/bin etcdir=/path/to/etc
PROTIP: You are responsible for having stedolan/jq and github/hub on your $PATH.

Configuration

Ensure you have a CircleCI API token and use said token one of the following ways:

Via init:

$ circleci init

Via environment variable:

export CIRCLECICLITOKEN='token'

Usage

$ circleci --help
Usage:
  circleci artifacts <project> <build>
    [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--trace|-x]

circleci await <project> <build> [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--resolution|-r <seconds>] [--trace|-x]

circleci browse <project> [build] [--trace|-x]

circleci build <project> <build> [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--trace|-x]

circleci builds <project> [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--limit|-l <limit>] [--monochrome|-m] [--offset|-o <offset>] [--trace|-x]

circleci cancel <project> <build> [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--trace|-x]

circleci init [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--token|-t <token>] [--trace|-x]

circleci me [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--trace|-x]

circleci notify <project> <build> [--resolution|-r <seconds>] [--trace|-x]

circleci project <project> [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--trace|-x]

circleci projects [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--trace|-x]

circleci retry <project> <build> [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--trace|-x]

circleci trigger <project> <branch> [--compact|-c] [--filter|-f <filter>] [--monochrome|-m] [--parameter-key|-K <key>] [--parameter-value|-V <value>] [--revision|-R <revision>] [--trace|-x]

Configuration Commands: init Initialize

Core Commands: artifacts List the artifacts produced by a given build for a given project build Details of a given build for a given project builds Details of all builds for a given project cancel Cancel a given build for a given project me Details of the given user project Details of a given project projects List projects of the given user retry Retry a given build for a given project trigger Trigger a new build of a given branch for a given project

Convenience Commands: await Await success or failure of a given build for a given project browse Open CircleCI page of a given project notify Await success or failure of a given build for a given project and create an OS X notification with the details

More Information: chat https://rockymadden-slack.herokuapp.com/ repo https://github.com/rockymadden/circleci-cli

PROTIPS:
  • Project names are represented as a combination of username and project name
(e.g. rockymadden/circleci-cli).
  • -- can be used as a placeholder for the current project, when inside a GitHub-based git repo.
  • Project placeholder is implicitly applied, when not provided and inside a GitHub-based git repo.
  • -- can be used as a placeholder for the most recent build.
  • Build placeholder is implicitly applied, when not provided.
  • -- can be used as a placeholder for the current branch, when inside a git repo.
  • Branch placeholder is implicitly applied, when not provided and inside a git repo.
  • The --compact option is a wrapper around the jq
--compact-output option
  • The --filter option is passed directly to jq as a
filter
  • The --monochrome option a wrapper around the jq
--monochrome-output option
  • All commands prompt for required arguments which were not provided via options or arguments. This
allows for both traditional usage and prompt-based usage.

artifacts:

$ # Implicit project and build:
$ circleci artifacts

$ # Placeheld project and build: $ circleci artifacts -- --

$ # Placeheld project and explicit build: $ circleci artifacts -- 1

$ # Explicit project and build: $ circleci artifacts rockymadden/circleci-cli 1

await:

$ # Implicit project and build:
$ circleci await

$ # Placeheld project and build: $ circleci await -- --

$ # Placeheld project and explicit build: $ circleci await -- 1

$ # Explicit project and build: $ circleci await rockymadden/circleci-cli 1

$ # With filter: $ circleci await --filter='.build_num'

browse:

$ # Implicit project and build:
$ circleci browse

$ # Placeheld project and build: $ circleci browse -- --

$ # Placeheld project and explicit build: $ circleci browse -- 1

$ # Explicit project and build: $ circleci browse rockymadden/circleci-cli 1

build:

$ # Implicit project and build:
$ circleci build

$ # Placeheld project and build: $ circleci build -- --

$ # Placeheld project and explicit build: $ circleci build -- 1

$ # Explicit project and build: $ circleci build rockymadden/circleci-cli 1

$ # With filter: $ circleci build --filter='.build_num'

builds:

$ # Implicit project:
$ circleci builds

$ # Placeheld project: $ circleci builds --

$ # Explicit project: $ circleci builds rockymadden/circleci-cli

$ # With filter: $ circleci builds --filter='.[] | .build_num'

cancel:

$ # Implicit project and build:
$ circleci cancel

$ # Placeheld project and build: $ circleci cancel -- --

$ # Placeheld project and explicit build: $ circleci cancel -- 1

$ # Explicit project and build: $ circleci cancel rockymadden/circleci-cli 1

$ # With filter: $ circleci cancel --filter='.status'

me:

$ # With filter:
$ circleci me --filter='.login'

notify:

$ # Implicit project and build:
$ circleci notify

$ # Placeheld project and build: $ circleci notify -- --

$ # Placeheld project and explicit build: $ circleci notify -- 1

$ # Explicit project and build: $ circleci notify rockymadden/circleci-cli 1

project:

$ # Implicit project:
$ circleci project

$ # Placeheld project: $ circleci project --

$ # Explicit project: $ circleci project rockymadden/circleci-cli

$ # With filter: $ circleci project --filter='.username + "/" + .reponame'

projects:

$ # With filter:
$ circleci projects --filter='.[] | .username + "/" + .reponame'

retry:

$ # Implicit project and build:
$ circleci retry

$ # Placeheld project and build: $ circleci retry -- --

$ # Placeheld project and explicit build: $ circleci retry -- 1

$ # Explicit project and build: $ circleci retry rockymadden/circleci-cli 1

$ # With filter: $ circleci retry --filter='.status'

trigger:

$ # Implicit project and branch:
$ circleci trigger

$ # Placeheld project and branch: $ circleci trigger -- --

$ # Placeheld project and explicit branch: $ circleci trigger -- master

$ # Explicit project and branch: $ circleci trigger rockymadden/circleci-cli master

$ # With build parameters: $ circleci trigger --parameter-key=key1 --parameter-value=val1 --parameter-key=key2 --parameter-value=val2

$ # With build parameters (short form): $ circleci trigger -K key1 -V val1 -K key2 -V val2

$ # With revision: $ circleci trigger --revision=634f9656ccf6e0cad7385782e776569bddbf84d6

$ # With revision (short form): $ circleci trigger -R 634f9656ccf6e0cad7385782e776569bddbf84d6

$ # With filter: $ circleci trigger --filter='.vcs_revision'

$ # With filter (short form): $ circleci trigger -f '.vcs_revision'

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Rocky Madden (https://rockymadden.com/)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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