Tracking Azure DevOps build activities - azure

Question

I have set up multiple Azure DevOps build pipelines that are triggered by submitting pull requests to a GitHub repo. Whenever a build happens, I can navigate to that build's page and see its build steps and whether the build was successful. How do I pull that information out programmatically?

Answer 1

You can get a specific build status by restful api
https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/build/builds/{buildId}?api-version=5.1
But I guess you probably want a build status badge to be added to your git repo.
First go to the Pipelines page in your Azure Devops, select the pipeline of your git repo.
On the right top corner, click on the eclipse and choose status badge
Copy the sample markdown link.
Then go to your github repo, and paste the status markdown link in the read.me file and commit the change to your repo. The build status will be shown as below in your github repo
And aslo you need go to the Project Settings of your azure devops. Go to the Settings under Pipelines. Make sure Allow anonymous access to badges checkbox under General

Answer 2

To pull information out of Azure DevOps programmatically, I can use the Azure DevOps Python API. This SDK provides multiple clients to pull various data from Azure DevOps. As #Levi Lu-MSFT's answer hinted, the data I wanted can be obtained from the build client.
I installed the SDK in a conda environment with this YAML:
name: DevOpsData
channels:
- conda-forge
dependencies:
- python=3.6
- pip==19.2.3
- nb_conda_kernels==2.2.1
- papermill==1.0.1
- pandas==0.23.4
- scikit-learn==0.20.0
- lightgbm==2.2.1
- pip:
- prompt_toolkit==2.0.9
- azure-cli==2.0.69
- azure-devops
I pulled what I needed using this script:
# Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
from azure.devops.connection import Connection
from msrest.authentication import BasicAuthentication
import pprint
import datetime
if __name__ == "__main__":
# Fill in with your personal access token and org URL
personal_access_token = "MY_ACDESS_TOKEN"
organization_url = "https://dev.azure.com/MY_ORGANIZATION"
# Create a connection to the org
credentials = BasicAuthentication("", personal_access_token)
connection = Connection(base_url=organization_url, creds=credentials)
# Get a client (the "core" client provides access to projects, teams, etc)
build_client = connection.clients.get_build_client()
# Get the first page of builds
project = "MY_PROJECT_NAME"
get_builds_response = build_client.get_builds(project=project)
index = 0
while get_builds_response is not None:
for build in get_builds_response.value:
duration = build.finish_time - build.start_time
seconds = duration.days*(24*60*60)+duration.seconds
print("[{}]\t{}\t{}\t{}\t{:,} seconds".format(
index, build.build_number, build.source_branch, build.result,
seconds
))
index += 1
if (get_builds_response.continuation_token is not None
and get_builds_response.continuation_token != ""):
# Get the next page of builds
get_builds_response = build_client.get_builds(
continuation_token=get_builds_response.continuation_token)
else:
# All builds have been retrieved
get_builds_response = None