puppetdb_query.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import json
import platform
import requests
import os

#os.environ['PYTHONWARNINGS'] = 'ignore:Unverified HTTPS request'

hostname = platform.node()

url = 'https://puppetdb.example.com:8081/pdb/query/v4/nodes'
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json'}

ssl_cert = '/etc/puppet/ssl/certs/%s.pem' %hostname
ssl_ca_cert = '/etc/puppet/ssl/ca/ca.pem'
ssl_key = '/etc/puppetl/ssl/private_keys/%s.pem' %hostname

query = '["=", ["fact", "operatingsystem"], "CentOS"]'
r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json={"query": query}, verify=ssl_ca_cert, cert=(ssl_cert, ssl_key))

print json.dumps(json.loads(r.text), indent=2)