Thanks @strive. That got me one step closer. I'm having permissions issues on my service account now. It doesn't have permission to access other user's saved searches.
I posted the question here: http://answers.splunk.com/answers/149067/permissions-issue-access-saved-searches
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Have you taken a look at our Python SDK ?
You can use this to execute Splunk searches and integrate the results into your application and also send events from your Python app directly into Splunk. There is also a PHP SDK.
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