Downloading builds from TeamCity

Question

Is there a way to download specific builds of a project in TeamCity?

Solution 1

What you're actually looking to do is create artifacts in TeamCity. Artifacts are normally a build output which are then attached to the individual build runs so that you can download and review them at a later date. There's a walk through including the creation of build artifacts in You're deploying it wrong! TeamCity, Subversion & Web Deploy part 5: Web Deploy with TeamCity.

Solution 2

You can use the build id, build number or one of the static build identifiers:

http://{TeamCity-Server}/repository/download/{BUILD_TYPE_ID}/{BUILD_NUMBER}/{ARTIFACT_PATH}

http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/TCD65/Patterns+For+Accessing+Build+Artifacts

Comments

[kasperhj]

How do I set up TC to do this? Can it provide a listing of the different builds?

[Bronumski]

@lejon Can we confirm what it is you are trying to download. I got the impression that you are trying to download artifacts from a build, is this the case?

[kasperhj]

I'm sorry, I don't know what "artifacts" referes to.

[Bronumski]

@lejon What do you want to download, the output from a build or the source used for the build?

[kasperhj]

Both really. First the output though.

[Bronumski]

@lejon In order to get the output you need to store the output as artifacts. confluence.jetbrains.net/display/TCD65/Build+Artifact Once you have artifacts you can access them how I described above.

[kasperhj]

I have now tried adding some artifact paths to put the content of \bin in a separate directory (although the path is rather obscure). How can I reference this artifact from the outside, so my users always can download the latest version by entering a url?

[Troy Hunt]

I'm not near a TeamCity server this week so I'll have to speculate, but I think you'll find the URL is predictable and will contain a variable for the build number. There's also a REST API available that can be used to pull back build info which you might find useful: confluence.jetbrains.net/display/TW/REST+API+Plugin