topic Re: Content filtering in Network Platform API

Content filtering

rares-pauna — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 09:15:48 GMT

Hello guys, i am trying to update the content filtering rules for all networks within a organization but i get this error

With a GET i took from a template the configuration for content filtering which i considered to be complete.

blockedUrlCategories=[

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/6',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/10',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/11',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/13',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/18',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/27',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/31',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/32',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/33',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/36',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/37',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/46',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/48',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/49',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/53',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/54',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/56',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/57',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/58',

'meraki:contentFiltering/category/59','meraki:contentFiltering/category/62','meraki:contentFiltering/category/64','meraki:contentFiltering/category/67','meraki:contentFiltering/category/68', 'meraki:contentFiltering/category/70','meraki:contentFiltering/category/71', 'meraki:contentFiltering/category/72','meraki:contentFiltering/category/73','meraki:contentFiltering/category/76'

urlCategoryListSize='fullList'

The same error i also get in postman

Re: Content filtering

rares-pauna — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 09:19:38 GMT

I even tried with the example given on the developer hub :

dashboard.appliance.updateNetworkApplianceContentFiltering(

network_id,

allowedUrlPatterns=['http://www.example.org', 'http://help.com.au'],

blockedUrlPatterns=['http://www.example.com', 'http://www.betting.com'],

blockedUrlCategories=['meraki:contentFiltering/category/1', 'meraki:contentFiltering/category/7'],

urlCategoryListSize='topSites'

) , but i get the same error

Re: Content filtering

Raphael_L — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:07:11 GMT

Have you tried to configure a simple content filtering policy on the dashboard , then retreived the rule via a GET ?https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-appliance-content-filtering

Looking at the documentation , it seems that the output for categories is different from what you are using. It 'should' include the category name.

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-appliance-content-filtering-categories

Re: Content filtering

rares-pauna — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:15:53 GMT

After investigating i found that some categories disappeared, and the new syntax is 'meraki:contentFiltering/category/C1', there needs to be added " C " before the number. The name of the category is not needed in the POST, you only see it in the GET. So the solution is using " C".