How to run a report with SDK?

[zacharysyoung]

Is it possible to run a saved report with SDK (either JS or Python)? I'd like to get back the <canvas> object if possible.

I was not able to get the JS example of charting to work, but that looks like defining the search on the fly and then charting it. Searching the docs has not turned up anything that looks pertitent, neither has grepping the JavaScript or Python projects from Git.

Thank you,

[psanford_splunk · Accepted solution]

If you are working with stats in saved searches we have a lot of support for saved searches in the SDKs.

However, if you are really looking at running the reports, we don't support that as of right now in the SDKs.

There are REST endpoints for running the views. Take a look at these in the REST docs: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/RESTAPI/RESTsearch#scheduled.2Fviews

Not sure if that will be helpful, but let me know.

[ineeman]

Zachary, you are correct. There is no way today to get a <canvas> element. This is because it is not self-contained, it depends on JavaScript, CSS and other things on the page that are not easily embeddable today. One option is to run the search using the SDK, and then use the built-in charting components in the JS SDK to display it on your page.

[zacharysyoung]

Hi, and thank you for your answer. I followed that RESTAPI link, and I had seen that earlier, but it seems like it can only e-mail a PDF. If I want the CANVAS object, to redisplay in a web page, I'll need to scrape the site using the DOM (it's been a while since I scraped, so that term may not be accurate), it seems like. Is this correct?