Wireless Overview - Access Data via API / python sdk

[miph]

Hello developers,

is there a way to collect the access points wireless overview data dashboards?

e.g.

We would like to extract this information on a regular basis (for reports and monitoring).

I was not able to find either a direct way via api or sdk or a manual way (e.g. the clients time to connect data) yet...

Regards
Michael

[Philip D'Ath]

I'm not aware of any way to collect this summarised data. To build this yourself from the raw data from be pretty hard.

[miph · Accepted solution]

I managed to collect the data via single calls and rebuilded the logic in python

[AsterV4]

hi @miph could you share how did you do it?

[miph]

Hi @AsterV4 - yes of course - not the full code but an approach if this is fine for you.

As @Philip D'Ath already mentioned its quite difficult to reproduce everything but i extracted the neccessary parts for me...

You need to build a request with

headers = {'Cookie': 'dash_auth=xxx'}
and for example to get the signal quality you need to do something like:

requests.request(
"GET",
"<base_url>/manage/wireless_insights_network/signal_quality_by_client?timespan=86400",

headers= {'Cookie': 'dash_auth=xxx'},

timeout=30

)

The dash_auth cookie can be seen in your own calls against the website when browsing - just take a look at the developer tools of your browsersession.

I´m aware that this "solution" will probably be not that stable, because of frontend or backend changes and the refreshing of the dash_auth cookie is also not that handy - but since there is no other current solution this is working much faster than manually searching for the "problematic" networks.

[Dale-joyce]

Thanks