sbclient - CLI Splunkbase client

sbclient is a command-line client for interacting with the officially unofficial Splunkbase API.

Installation

sbclient can be installed using pip3:

pip3 install sbclient

Or, if you're feeling adventurous, can be installed directly from github:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/HurricaneLabs/sbclient.git

Usage

Usage: sbclient [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  -U, --username TEXT  [required]
  -P, --password TEXT
  --help               Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  check-app-for-update
  download-app
  get-app-info
  get-app-info-by-id
  get-latest-version

sbclient is broken into several smaller commands. Credentials for Splunkbase can be passed as parameters, or can be set as environment variables

export SPLUNKBASE_USERNAME="doug.merritt"
export SPLUNKBASE_PASSWORD="spLunk1sc00l"

check-app-for-update

check-app-for-update will parse an app directory for details, and check for updates on Splunkbase for that app. It will also output the current version of the app, and details of the update if one is available.

Usage: sbclient check-app-for-update [OPTIONS] APP_DIR

Options:
  --splunk-version TEXT  Restrict to app versions compatible with a given
                         Splunk version
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

download-app

download-app will download an app from Splunkbase, either a specific version or the latest available.

Usage: sbclient download-app [OPTIONS] APP_NAME

Options:
  --output-path TEXT  Path and filename location to save the app
  --version TEXT      Version of app to download, default is latest
  --help              Show this message and exit.

get-app-info

get-app-info will lookup the app by name on Splunkbase and return available metadata as JSON string.

Usage: sbclient get-app-info APP_NAME

get-app-info-by-id

get-app-info-by-id will lookup the app by id on Splunkbase and return available metadata as JSON string.

Usage: sbclient get-app-info-by-id APP_ID

Note: This is very helpful to retrieve metadata (such as the name of an app) by just having the ID of an app. You can find the ID of each app by looking at the URL of the app on Splunkbase - it's just the last URL path. E.g. https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2890 is the URL for the machine learning toolkit on Splunkbase and 2890 is its ID.

get-latest-version

get-latest-version will check Splunkbase and output information on the latest version of an app available. Optionally, you can restrict the latest version to the latest version compatible with a specific Splunk version.

Usage: sbclient get-latest-version [OPTIONS] APP_NAME

Options:
  --splunk-version TEXT  Restrict to app versions compatible with a given
                         Splunk version
  --help                 Show this message and exit.