Installing apps available in SplunkBase via splunk CLI

[ianformanek]

I am trying to automate the installation of apps (as part of automating the whole splunk server creation), and since there is the nice ./splunk install app <file/link> command, I was hoping I could just use

./splunk install app http://splunkbase.splunk.com/apps:startdownload/PDF+Report+Server+-+install+on+Linux+only/1.3/pdfser...

or even better

./splunk install app pdfserver where I would just refer to a unique global app name (in the spirit of apt/yum)

but neither works - the download link probably only works in a browser (curl also chokes on it, giving an error that JavaScript is required).

Is there any way to make this work that I missed (aside from downloading the app manually and putting it on my server and pointing the automation/CLI to that file)?

[tfrederick74656]

I wrote a script to do this. It allows you to authenticate to Splunkbase and download an app.
Once you have the app.tgz, you can use the standard ./splunk install app <filename> syntax.

https://github.com/tfrederick74656/splunkbase-download

I realize this reply comes about 9 years too late, but hopefully it helps someone else in the future.

[MuS]

Hi ianformanek

did you try to use this link as well?

splunk install app http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/22348/download/

cheers

[ianformanek]

Just tried, same result (An error occurred: file could not be opened successfully) - that url is just a redirect to the one I tried earlier.

Seems like this is a way to enforce accepting license on download.