Enable, disable, and delete a Jenkins job via the REST API
domain: www.jenkins.io · 6 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Authenticate as for any state-changing Jenkins call: HTTP Basic with user:API-token (crumb-exempt), or a session cookie plus the crumb from /crumbIssuer/api/json.
Disable a job: curl -X POST -u user:APITOKEN "JENKINS_URL/job/my-job/disable"
Re-enable it: curl -X POST -u user:APITOKEN "JENKINS_URL/job/my-job/enable"
Delete the job entirely: curl -X POST -u user:APITOKEN "JENKINS_URL/job/my-job/doDelete" - the Jenkins javadoc notes the URL is /doDelete for historical-compatibility reasons.
Confirm the result with a plain GET: curl -u user:APITOKEN "JENKINS_URL/job/my-job/api/json?tree=disabled,buildable" - check disabled/buildable after enable/disable, or expect a 404 after delete.
For a job inside a folder: JENKINS_URL/job/<folder>/job/my-job/disable (same pattern for enable/doDelete). Docs: https://javadoc.jenkins.io/hudson/model/AbstractItem.html
Known gotchas
All three are reached only by POST; a GET on /disable, /enable, or /doDelete does not perform the action.
Under cookie/session auth these POSTs need the CSRF crumb, same as job creation; API-token Basic auth is exempt.
The Jenkins codebase names the method doDoDelete, but the actual URL segment is /doDelete - the doubled 'Do' is a Stapler dispatch naming artifact, not part of the path.
enable/disable are only defined for buildable job types (Freestyle, Pipeline, etc.) - not every item type (e.g. a folder) exposes them.
No request body or Content-Type is expected for enable/disable/delete.
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