I don't know off the top of my head if you can get to the PDF generation functionality from within Python - I've never tried in python and I haven't been able to find any documentation within Splunk's documentation if they officially expose those calls in their Python SDK. The PDF stuff in Splunk is based off of ReportLab, and lives in %SPLUNK_HOME%\Python-3.7\Lib\site-packages\reportlab, so you can poke aroundthere a bit to see if that helps. I wasn't finding anything obvious of Splunk-written python calling the ReportLab stuff to generate a PDF, your luck might be better. You can get a PDF generated from a REST endpoint - but do keep in mind that the overall PDF generation in Splunk is dashboard-centric, not search-centric.  So you will need to create a Dashboard that renders the results for your SID, and then have that be generated as a PDF.  Here are a few posts of people generating the PDF via a REST call which you can do from the CLI, within Python, etc.  Once you have those bytes you can send those on to where you need: Solved: Re: Generate PDF from View in REST API - Splunk Community Trigger a PDF via the command line - Splunk Community Historically the built-in PDF generation of Splunk has left something to be desired.  It's just been OK...There are some apps on Splunkbase that help with various PDF things you could look into as well: PDF Apps: https://splunkbase.splunk.com/apps?keyword=pdf      ... View more