https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Python-script-will-only-succeed-every-now-and-again/m-p/202733#M2723 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I wrote a Python script to retrieve JSON data from a REST API. The script fetches the JSON with the urllib2-module and does some parsing with the json-module. When I call the Python-script directly via the command line, it will always succeed.</P> <P>However, if I'm calling it with Splunk's Python via <EM>/opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd python /path/to/myscript.py</EM>, the script will only work on every third or fourth run. It will fail when retrieving the data with HTTP Error 400.</P> <P>Used imports in the script: os, os.path, re, ast, csv, sys, json, logging, argparse, ConfigParser, urllib2</P> <P>Do you have an idea what might be happening here? How can I troubleshoot this?<BR /> Many thanks!</P> <P>It fails with Splunk 6.1.3 and its Python 2.7<BR /> Script works fine with OS Python 2.6.9</P> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:31:15 GMT ssauler 2016-02-12T15:31:15Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Python-script-will-only-succeed-every-now-and-again/m-p/202733#M2723 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I wrote a Python script to retrieve JSON data from a REST API. The script fetches the JSON with the urllib2-module and does some parsing with the json-module. When I call the Python-script directly via the command line, it will always succeed.</P> <P>However, if I'm calling it with Splunk's Python via <EM>/opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd python /path/to/myscript.py</EM>, the script will only work on every third or fourth run. It will fail when retrieving the data with HTTP Error 400.</P> <P>Used imports in the script: os, os.path, re, ast, csv, sys, json, logging, argparse, ConfigParser, urllib2</P> <P>Do you have an idea what might be happening here? How can I troubleshoot this?<BR /> Many thanks!</P> <P>It fails with Splunk 6.1.3 and its Python 2.7<BR /> Script works fine with OS Python 2.6.9</P> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:31:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Python-script-will-only-succeed-every-now-and-again/m-p/202733#M2723 ssauler 2016-02-12T15:31:15Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Python-script-will-only-succeed-every-now-and-again/m-p/202734#M2724 <P>No need to reinvent the wheel. <A href="https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1546/">Use the REST API Modular Input.</A></P> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:08:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Python-script-will-only-succeed-every-now-and-again/m-p/202734#M2724 Damien_Dallimor 2016-02-12T16:08:00Z