https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/WinError-10061-Export-data-using-the-Splunk-SDKs-not-working/m-p/527779#M9440 <P>Apologies if these are very basic questions but I am new to the API and the SDK.&nbsp; I am running the script below following the guidelines provided in the documentation, but I am getting the following error.&nbsp; Can anyone point me in the correct direction?</P><P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Search/ExportdatausingSDKs" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Search/ExportdatausingSDKs</A></P><P>ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="python">import splunklib.client as client import splunklib.results as results HOST = PORT = 8089 USERNAME = PASSWORD = service = client.connect( host=HOST, port=PORT, username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD) rr = results.ResultsReader(service.jobs.export("search index=_internal earliest=-1h | head 5")) for result in rr: if isinstance(result, results.Message): # Diagnostic messages might be returned in the results data=(result.type, result.message) string_format="%s:%s" print(string_format % data) elif isinstance(result, dict): # Normal events are returned as dicts print(result) assert rr.is_preview == False </LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:52:02 GMT CarbonCriterium 2020-11-03T16:52:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/WinError-10061-Export-data-using-the-Splunk-SDKs-not-working/m-p/527779#M9440 <P>Apologies if these are very basic questions but I am new to the API and the SDK.&nbsp; I am running the script below following the guidelines provided in the documentation, but I am getting the following error.&nbsp; Can anyone point me in the correct direction?</P><P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Search/ExportdatausingSDKs" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Search/ExportdatausingSDKs</A></P><P>ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="python">import splunklib.client as client import splunklib.results as results HOST = PORT = 8089 USERNAME = PASSWORD = service = client.connect( host=HOST, port=PORT, username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD) rr = results.ResultsReader(service.jobs.export("search index=_internal earliest=-1h | head 5")) for result in rr: if isinstance(result, results.Message): # Diagnostic messages might be returned in the results data=(result.type, result.message) string_format="%s:%s" print(string_format % data) elif isinstance(result, dict): # Normal events are returned as dicts print(result) assert rr.is_preview == False </LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:52:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/WinError-10061-Export-data-using-the-Splunk-SDKs-not-working/m-p/527779#M9440 CarbonCriterium 2020-11-03T16:52:02Z