https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/is-it-possible-to-have-a-custom-command-return-json-to-splunk/m-p/183838#M36810 <P>I have a RESTful webservice which returns me a fairly complex json. I wish to pass it as-is to splunk and hope for splunk toparse it into key=value pairs.</P> <P>What do i have to do? I can not seem to find a sample <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":confused_face:">😕</span></P> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:22:03 GMT dominiquevocat 2015-01-14T17:22:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/is-it-possible-to-have-a-custom-command-return-json-to-splunk/m-p/183838#M36810 <P>I have a RESTful webservice which returns me a fairly complex json. I wish to pass it as-is to splunk and hope for splunk toparse it into key=value pairs.</P> <P>What do i have to do? I can not seem to find a sample <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":confused_face:">😕</span></P> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:22:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/is-it-possible-to-have-a-custom-command-return-json-to-splunk/m-p/183838#M36810 dominiquevocat 2015-01-14T17:22:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/is-it-possible-to-have-a-custom-command-return-json-to-splunk/m-p/183839#M36811 <P>Surprisingly simple....</P> <PRE><CODE>url="https://xxx/wapi/xxx" values={'ip_address' : ipfield} data = urllib.urlencode(values) passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() passman.add_password(None, url, USERNAME, PASSWORD) authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman) opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler) urllib2.install_opener(opener) req = urllib2.Request(url, data) pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(req) results=json.loads(pagehandle.read()) splunk.Intersplunk.outputResults( results ) </CODE></PRE> Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:39:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/is-it-possible-to-have-a-custom-command-return-json-to-splunk/m-p/183839#M36811 dominiquevocat 2015-01-16T08:39:50Z