In this worked example, we will produce the same CSV file output as in the first PowerShell worked example.
Pre-requsites
The "requests" module in Python handles web requests very nicely. If this is not installed on your system you can install it as follows:
On Linux or macOS:
pip install -U pip requests
On Windows:
python -m pip install -U pip requests
Step One - Connect to the host
The RestAPI uses HTML basic authentication - for this example we will use the default user name of admin and a password of password. In a production environment you should always change the default credentials.
The requests module handles the HTTP details for us.
import requests
r = requests.get('http://vm-mike-2012b/api/v1/devices',auth=('admin','password'))
max = r.headers['X-fetch-count']
data = r.json()
count = len(data)
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