Splunk GET to fatch data from some website with login

[Chandras11]

Hi Everyone,

I have an online reporting tool, which can generate the report and download it my system as excel.
I recently learned about the Splunk GET method. Is there a way, by which I can use GET to go inside this online reporting tool, just click on a certain button and download the report to my system.
If not GET then do we have any other app /forwarder which is capable of doing the same task.

Thanks a lot for your time and effort.

[niketn]

@Chandras11 check out REST API Modular Input App from Splunkbase.

[Chandras11]

Thanks, @niketnilay 🙂 I am going through the app

[jkat54]

Yes, please see my app called TA-webtools and its urlencode / curl commands:

https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3420/#/details

You will need to use another tool such as telerik's fiddler to see what "GET" is made when you click on the button in your external tool. Then you'll have to wire that up with the | curl command in ta-webtools. This will bring all the data into the search pipeline as a field called curl_response or curl_results.

So yes, it can be done, but it requires a bit of knowledge on how to create / script web requests, etc.

[Chandras11]

Thanks a lot for this answer. Let me go through this app and functionality. I already have experience with python and I am learning the scripting as well. Hope for the best 🙂