Although this is not a feature we have today, you can try the Pyhton script below courtesy of the Meraki Systems Engineering team. Note that this is provided as is with no support. It may not work, if it does work it may stop working at any time. #!/usr/bin/python3
'''
=== PREREQUISITES ===
Run in Python 3 or 2
Install selenium, via macOS terminal:
Python 3 > pip3 install selenium
Python 2 > sudo pip install selenium
Install Chrome driver:
brew install chromedriver
Usage:
Python 3 > python3 screenshot.py
Python 2 > python screenshot.py
=== DESCRIPTION ===
UI script to take a screenshot every x seconds, given camera input link, until script manually terminated (control-C).
'''
import datetime
import time
import glob
import os
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select, WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
# Default Chrome download folder:
FILE_PATH="your local path"
# If using Python 2
try: input = raw_input
except NameError: pass
# Generic parse function
def parse(text, beg_tag, end_tag, beg_pos=0, end_pos=-1):
if text.find(beg_tag, beg_pos, end_pos) == -1:
return ('', -1)
else:
initial = text.find(beg_tag, beg_pos, end_pos) + len(beg_tag)
if text.find(end_tag, initial) == -1:
return ('', -1)
else:
final = text.find(end_tag, initial)
return (text[initial:final], final+len(end_tag))
# Login to Dashboard
def login(driver):
while True:
# For convenience, option to store credentials in separate login.py file, although unsecure since cleartext
try:
import login
(DASHBOARD_EMAIL, DASHBOARD_PASSWORD) = (login.email, login.password)
except ImportError:
DASHBOARD_EMAIL = input('Enter your Dashboard account email adddress: ')
DASHBOARD_PASSWORD = input('Enter your Dashboard account password: ')
print('Loading Selenium headless browser...')
login_url = 'https://account.meraki.com/login/login'
driver.get(login_url)
driver.find_element_by_id('email').send_keys(DASHBOARD_EMAIL)
driver.find_element_by_id('password').send_keys(DASHBOARD_PASSWORD)
driver.find_element_by_id('commit').click()
# Check credentials
if 'Invalid email/password combination' in driver.page_source:
print('Invalid Dashboard email/password combination, please try again!\n')
continue
else:
print('Successfully logged into Dashboard as ' + DASHBOARD_EMAIL)
break
# Verify two-factor authentication code
while 'Enter verification code' in driver.page_source:
code = input('Enter two-factor authentication code: ')
input_element = driver.find_element_by_id('code')
input_element.send_keys(code)
input_element.submit()
# Check code
if 'Invalid verification code' in driver.page_source:
print('Invalid verification code, please try again!\n')
continue
else:
break
if __name__ == '__main__':
#driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
login(driver)
# Input MV video link from Dashboard
while True:
url = input('Enter link to camera page, which ends in "/manage/nodes/new_list/[node_id]":\n')
url = url.rstrip('/')
# Error checking for layer 8 issues
if 'nodes/new_list' not in url:
print('Invalid link to camera page, please try again!\n')
continue
else:
break
driver.get(url)
driver.implicitly_wait(20)
while True:
time.sleep(5)
# Downloads screenshot into default folder of the browser settings. No dialogue box presented.
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.IconButton.subtle.ScreenshotButton.btn.btn-default').click()
print('Took screenshot at ' + str(datetime.datetime.now()))
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