I have been in IT Support for many years but have always been interested in coding so I've started to train with Python. I'm working on a little coding project where I ask the user for some parameters (static IP to set for the camera, if the cam has a microphone, what they want camera to be named, etc) and then need to push these settings to an IP camera but I don't know how to "send" these commands to the IP of the camera.
For example, here's the command I run from a browser which will set the resolution on camera with IP 192.168.0.9x to 800x450:
http://192.168.0.9x/axis-cgi/param.cgi?action=update&Image.I0.Appearance.Resolution=800x450
How do I get Python to send these types of commands to a web server (the IP cam is essentially a web server)?
Thanks for any help :-)
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Python-requests is an easy to use HTTP client.
To perform your request, start with:
import requests
params = { "Image.I0.Appearance.Resolution": "800x450",
"action": "update"
}
response = requests.get("http://192.168.0.9x/axis-cgi/param.cgi", params=params)
I think urllib2 is solution for your problem :)
import urllib2
content = urllib2.urlopen(some_url)
Look at requests. This is a third party library, but it's better than the built in urllib2.
import requests
r = requests.get(some_url)
Requests was developed with a few PEP 20 idioms in mind.
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Readability counts.
You could use webbrowser library in python to directly send the command to web page and control the camera. I used this for my FOSCAM FI8918W
for ur query it could be:
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open(http://192.168.0.9x/axis-cgi/param.cgi?action=update&Image.I0.Appearance.Resolution=800x450)
U can check the cgi commands from FOSCAM cgi reference guide
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I have a question with probably a well-known answer. However I couldnt articulate it well enough to find answers on google.
Lets say you are using the developer interface of Chrome browser (Press F12). If you click on the network tab and go to any website, a lot of files will be queried there for example images, stylesheets and JSON-responses.
I want to parse these JSON-responses using python now.
Thanks in advance!
You can save the network requests to a .har file (JSON format) and analyze that.
In your network tools panel, there is a download button to export as HAR format.
import json
with open('myrequests.har') as f:
network_data = json.load(f)
print(network_data)
Or, as Jack Deeth answered you can make the requests using Python instead of your browser and get the response JSON data that way.
Though, this can sometimes be difficult depending on the website and nature of the request(s) (for example, needing to login and/or figuring out how to get all the proper arguments to make the request)
I use requests to get the data, and it comes back as a Python dictionary:
import requests
r = requests.get("url/spotted/with/devtools")
r.json()["keys_observed_in_devtools"]
Perhaps you can try using Selenium.
Maybe the answers on this question can help you.
I'm having issues with connecting to the Internet using python.
I am on a corporate network that uses a PAC file to set proxies. Now this would be fine if I could find and parse the PAC to get what I need but I cannot.
The oddity:
R can connect to the internet to download files through wininet and .External(C_download,...) so I know it is possible and when I do:
import ctypes
wininet = ctypes.windll.wininet
flags = ctypes.wintypes.DWORD()
connected = wininet.InternetGetConnectedState(ctypes.byref(flags), None)
print(connected, hex(flags.value))
I get: 1 0x12 so I have a connection available but once I try to use other functions from within wininet I'm constantly met with error functions like:
AttributeError: function 'InternetCheckConnection' not found
and this goes for pretty much any other function of wininet, but this doesn't surprise me as the only named function in dir(wininet) is InternetGetConnectedState.
The wininet approach can clearly work, but I have no idea how to proceed with it [especially given that I only use Windows in work].
"ok, so poor wording - let's just change that to: open a connection to a web page and obtain its content using python "
Sounds like you actually need BeautifulSoup and Requests. Here's a quick example of them being used to explore a webpage
First, I would strongly suggest to install the requests module. Doing HTTP without it on Python is pretty painful.
According to this answer you need to download wpad.dat from the host wpad. That is a text file that contains the proxy address.
Once you know the proxy settings, you can configure requests to use them:
import requests
proxies = {
'http': 'http://10.10.1.10:3128',
'https': 'http://10.10.1.10:1080',
}
requests.get('http://example.org', proxies=proxies)
Using Python, I would like to pull data from NetSuite, along with adding/updating data in NetSuite. For example, I would like to create sales orders and add line items via Python.
I'm aware that they have a WSDL that I could potentially use. (And I was hoping that they would also have an API, but apparently not...) Does anyone have examples working with this WSDL in Python? Are there better ways to integrate with NetSuite?
I have deal with Netsuite Webservice for around one week, there is not clear documentation but once you are align with the other regular webservices behaivour is very simple adapt yourself. I attach one little script to login and to get the full list of services and data types in netsuite.
Use the factory method to create the objects to interact with the netsuite webservice.
I have used suds as SOAP Python Library.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from suds.client import Client
import os, time, sys, datetime
import suds
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logging.getLogger('suds.client').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
NS_HOST = 'https://webservices.netsuite.com'
email ='myemail#xxxxxx.com'
pwd ='mypwd'
account = "99999999"
NS_ENDPOINT = "2016_2"
NS_ROLE = 3
wsdl = NS_HOST + "/wsdl/v" + NS_ENDPOINT + "_0/netsuite.wsdl"
client = Client(url=wsdl)
#You can get the methods and types with this object
print client
ApplicationInfo = client.factory.create('ns16:ApplicationInfo')
ApplicationInfo.applicationId = "xxxxx-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXX"
client.set_options(location= NS_HOST + "/services/NetSuitePort_" + NS_ENDPOINT, soapheaders={'applicationInfo':ApplicationInfo})
passport = client.factory.create('ns4:Passport')
passport.email = email
passport.password = pwd
passport.account = account
recordRef = client.factory.create('ns4:RecordRef')
recordRef.name="MX - Gerencia de Contabilidad"
passport.role = recordRef
client.service.login(passport)
Netsuite has provided toolkits for Java, .Net and PHP to access their webservices. For other languages either there are third party toolkits or you have to send Raw SOAP requests.
For my Python based projects I'm using Raw SOAP requests method. I suggest that first you get familiar with Netsuite Web services using any of the available toolkits and then for Python use this knowledge to generate raw SOAP requests. SOAPUI can also be of great help.
Have you explored restlets they are a generally good alternate for webservices.
There are a number of Python libraries available for processing SOAP messages, tried using SUDS, as it is the only one capable of properly consuming the 2014.1 Netsuite WSDL. This was only possible after some tweaks. The Netsuite WSDL is large and complex and took an enormous amount of time to load, even after caching AND loading from local. The SUDS library has not been maintained for quite a while, there is a maintained fork called SUDS-jurko that I have not yet tried. Ultimately, I ended up using raw soap messages to communicate with the Netsuite webservice for specific tasks.
I will be transmitting purchase info (like CC) to a bank gateway and retrieve the result by using Django thus via Python.
What would be the efficient and secure way of doing this?
I have read a documentation of this gateway for php, they seem to use this method:
$xml= Some xml holding data of a purchase.
$curl = `/usr/bin/curl -s -d 'DATA=$xml' "https://url of the virtual bank POS"`;
$data=explode("\n",$curl); //return value is also an xml, seems like they are splitting by each `\n`
and using the $data, they process if the payment is accepted, rejected etc..
I want to achieve this under python language, for this I have done some searching and seems like there is a python curl application named pycurl yet I have no experience using curl and do not know if this is library is suitable for this task. Please keep in mind that as this transfer requires security, I will be using SSL.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Use of the standard library urllib2 module should be enough:
import urllib
import urllib2
request_data = urllib.urlencode({"DATA": xml})
response = urllib2.urlopen("https://url of the virtual bank POS", request_data)
response_data = response.read()
data = response_data.split('\n')
I assume that xml variable holds data to be sent.
Citing pycurl.sourceforge.net:
To sum up, PycURL is very fast (esp. for multiple concurrent operations) and very feature complete, but has a somewhat complex interface. If you need something simpler or prefer a pure Python module you might want to check out urllib2 and urlgrabber. There is also a good comparison of the various libraries.
Both curl and urllib2 can work with https so it's up to you.
I have read documentation about Windows Live API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx
But how can I retrieve contacts from hotmail with python ?
Is there any example ?
Your program will first need to obtain "delegated authentication", for which the Python samples are here.
After that, the interface is REST-like: you only need to HTTP GET the appropriate URI (per the docs, that's '/LiveContacts/contacts' to retrieve all contacts. The REST Schema is documented here. You can make an HTTP GET request in Python with such standard library modules as urllib and urllib2, though the lower-level httplib module is also fine.
For those who are searching for the download link for the library
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/2/a/62adfe67-6fee-487f-9c3e-911ce5d0bc9d/webauth-python-1.2.tar.gz