copy from URL snapshot to a local file

In applescript, I used

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do shell script "curl -f 'http://192.168.11.xxx:7080/api/2.0/snapshot/camera/yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?force=true&apiKey=zzzzzzzzzz -o ~/Documents/DrivewayFolder/Driveway0.jpg"

but in python, neither requests get, put, or post will do it. Do I need to do a get into an indigo variable and then an os call to put into the file?

[jay (support)]

So, curl is doing 2 things for you here: it's downloading the image data, then it's storing it in the specified file. In Python, this would be two steps: have requests download the data, then write the data to a file:

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import requests

url = 'http://192.168.11.xxx:7080/api/2.0/snapshot/camera/yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?force=true&apiKey=zzzzzzzzzz'

# Make the request and get the reply
reply = requests.get(url)

# This will raise an exception if the request returned an error
reply.raise_for_status()

# Save the content to a file
with open('/full/path/to/Documents/DrivewayFolder/Driveway0.jpg', 'wb') as image_file:
    image_file.write(reply.content)

Untested but it should be close.

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import os
os.system("/usr/bin/curl -f 'http://192.168.11.xxx:7080/api/2.0/snapshot/camera/yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?force=true&apiKey=zzzzzzzzzz -o ~/Documents/DrivewayFolder/Driveway0.jpg")

should do it

Karl

if you want to get fancy with the parameters:

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import os
apiKey = indigo.variables["variable name where you store the api key"].value
os.system("/usr/bin/curl -f 'http://192.168.11.xxx:7080/api/2.0/snapshot/camera/yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?force=true&apiKey='"+apiKey+"' -o ~/Documents/DrivewayFolder/Driveway0.jpg")

and you can do the same for ip number .. camera # ..
{EDIT] Jay's post happened at the same time .. several ways .. mine is for an action, but can also be used in std python