Meraki Python API error

[morris]

I tested the code from https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api/#!get-organization-api-requests but received a SSL certificate error.

import meraki

# Defining your API key as a variable in source code is not recommended
API_KEY = '[REMOVED]'
# Instead, use an environment variable as shown under the Usage section
# @ https://github.com/meraki/dashboard-api-python/

dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY)

organization_id = '[REMOVED]'

response = dashboard.api_usage.getOrganizationApiRequests(
    organization_id, total_pages='all'
)

print(response)

Then I search around Internet and found this https://community.meraki.com/t5/Developers-APIs/Dashboard-API-via-Python-unable-to-get-local-issuer-... but how do I get the certificate? And why the file path is using double \\?

[BrechtSchamp]

I'm unsure about your error. I just tried it in a pycharm project and it works fine here.

The double backslash is because the backslash is used as an escape character in python. So you need to escape it... with a backslash.

"The backslash (\) character is used to escape characters that otherwise have a special meaning, such as newline, backslash itself, or the quote character. String literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter `r' or `R'; such strings are called raw strings and use different rules for backslash escape sequences."

More info here:

https://docs.python.org/2.0/ref/strings.html

[morris]

You're able to run the code without specifying the SSL certificate?

[BrechtSchamp]

Yes, I ran that exact code with my API key and my orgId.

I'm using Python 3.7 and Meraki library 0.80.3 in a pycharm project on Windows.

[rhbirkelund]

You really need to remove that API key, from the example, ASAP!

You do not share an API key on the internet, as it can be used malicously!

[BrechtSchamp]

That's the API key from the sample code, no worries.

[rhbirkelund]

Fair enough, then. 🙂

[morris]

was going to reply that. haha

[miguelsalas]

Hi morris,

I am just programming at the moment and I am working with the api v1.0 beta and there is no api_usage method

What version of the meraki library are you working with?

[PhilipDAth]

What is the underlying OS?  Has the OS environment got the typical root CA certificates installed?

[morris]

ok, now I can run the code in the non-proxy environment.

But code display the Networks in terminal, so how do I pipe the output to a file like .TXT or .CSV?

Where can I find documentation for the interaction between python and Meraki API? Because I would like to try other things.

[BrechtSchamp]

I think your best bet is to take a look at a python training course. Lots of material can be found on the internet.

Now to simply get that output into a .txt or .csv you can just add " > desiredname.txt" to the command in terminal.

E.g.

python mypythonscript.py > desiredname.txt

[Shashank]

I am also facing same problem but only when i am trying to get all data (from all pages). But when i try it for single (current) page only by omitting out total_pages='all' then it works fine.

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='n370.meraki.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1/organizations/<ORG-ID>/devices/statuses?perPage=1000&startingAfter=R2MN-1QLA-HNVB (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1129)')))