Get Organization Clients Search Breakout "Records" Section

[eroche]

I am trying to breakout the "Records Section" from the response. Is this possible? Below is the code I have currently. It returns the MAC and the whole record section.

def find_device():

    clearconsole()
    
    API_KEY = get_meraki_api_key()
    dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY, suppress_logging=True)

    organization_id = '412637'
    mac = input ('Which device are you trying to find (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx): ')


    response = dashboard.organizations.getOrganizationClientsSearch(
        organization_id, mac, total_pages='all'
    )
    fields = ['mac','records']
    

    for field in fields:
        print ('\n' + 'Here is what I found: ' + '\n')
        print (f"{field}: {response[field]}")

[PhilipDAth]

I'm not sure, but I think it should be more like:

mac =response['mac']
records = response['records']

for record in records:
  ...

[eroche]

I will give this a try and let you know. Thanks

[shwetaP]

If you want just the MAC address of the client, you don't need to run the for loop printing all the response fields. Just do -

print ('\n' + 'Here is what I found: ' + '\n')
print ("mac is", response['mac'])

[eroche]

Yeah I can get the MAC to display but I want to pull certain values out of the records section of the data. Lets say I want to show the following:

• MAC
• IP
• Switchport
• Status

MAC is fine but the other are part of the Records section.

[shwetaP · Accepted solution]

The records section in the API response is a list of nested dictionary which you have to parse to retrieve the keys you need.

For example the structure of this API response is something like this -

API response = { key:value, record:{ [ { key1:value1, key2:value2, etc.} ] }  }

In order to access the inner values of this nested dictionary you can do

record = response['records']

print ('\n' + 'Here is what I found: ' + '\n')
print("IP is ", record[0]['ip'])
print("SwitchPort is ", record[0]['switchport'])
print("Status is ", record[0]['status'])

You can learn about nested dictionaries here 

[eroche]

Thank you this works perfect and now know how to get that info out.