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I’m currently working on a CI/CD setup during my internship, and I want to trigger a Jenkins build automatically whenever a Pull Request (PR) is created on a GitHub repository.

Here’s my context:

  • I’m using Jenkins running locally (localhost).
  • Jenkins just calls an external script to compile the project.
  • I already tested calling the GitHub REST API, and it works fine — but this involves using an external script to fetch PRs.
  • I don’t have admin access to the GitHub repo, so I can’t create or configure GitHub webhooks.
  • I also don’t want to expose Jenkins over the internet using tools like ngrok, serveo, or similar.
  • I’d also prefer to avoid polling (e.g. using a cron or Git plugin with a schedule).

I’ve found that some Jenkins plugins can detect GitHub PRs, but many of them have reported security vulnerabilities, which makes them unsuitable in my case.

Is there a reliable way to detect GitHub Pull Requests and trigger a Jenkins build locally?

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  • The third option you have mentioned is the best with your restrictions in place. Any reason why an external script would be a problem? There are no other reasonable options apart from the ones you mentioed. Commented Apr 14 at 8:16
  • @MB how is it different from polling (except that polling would be performed by an external script that complicates the setup)? Commented Apr 20 at 15:55
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