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Can I Export PDF Via Rest?

mzorzi — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:47:06 GMT

Is it possible to download the report in PDF format via REST?

Re: Can I Export PDF Via Rest?

mzorzi — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:49:46 GMT

Try this :

curl -u admin:{{password}} -k 'https://localhost:8089/services/pdfgen/render?input-dashboard={{your_dashboard}}&namespace={{your_namespace}}&paper-size=a4-landscape' >> test.pdf

Re: Can I Export PDF Via Rest?

bruceclarke — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:13:21 GMT

One thing I noted is that the line endings were causing an issue for Adobe to read the PDF. If anyone is having that issue, replacing any new line characters ("\n") with carriage returns ("\r") should fix the issue.

Re: Can I Export PDF Via Rest?

damode — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 03:39:24 GMT

This command works for dashboards that dont require any user input.

How can we use the above to command to export a dashboard that requires user inputs ?

I tried the above command to export the Splunk for PaloAlto Networks app's main dashboard and it worked. However, when I tried the same command with additional parameters for Cisco app's dashboard, it just generated an unreadable1kb pdf file.

Example below,
curl -u admin:{password} -k "https://localhost:8089/services/pdfgen/render?input-dashboard=CiscoNetworksOverview&namespace=cisco_ios&paper-size=a4-landscape&earliest=-24h%40h&latest=now&form.product_selection=WLC" >> C:\Users\admin\Downloads\test.pdf

Any workaround for this please?

Re: Can I Export PDF Via Rest?

anwarmian — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:56:52 GMT

You can write a python script to input data to a generic dashboard and create a pdf. Please see the following link.

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/366832/generate-pdf-from-view-in-rest-api.html

It worked for me.

Re: Can I Export PDF Via Rest?

migquinn — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 20:18:19 GMT

When I try using this method, a .pdf file gets pulled back but isn't readable and won't open. Have you guys encountered this issue?

Re: Can I Export PDF Via Rest?

Chinna_nara — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:16:24 GMT

sometimes not able to open the pdf report, it's corrupted and it is from cluster environment. Any views on it?