Example interaction with Ubiquiti AirOS "API"

ubiquiti_air_os_scrape.py

# Requirements:
# 
# Python 2.7
# Requests package (pip install requests)

import pprint
import requests
from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning

USERNAME = 'some_readonly_username'
PASSWORD = 'some_readonly_password'

requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)

login_url = 'https://{0}/api/auth'

urls = [
    'http://{0}/arp.cgi',
    'http://{0}/brmacs.cgi?brmacs=y',
    'http://{0}/sroutes.cgi',
    'http://{0}/status.cgi',

    # the following don't seem to work on AirOS 8
    'http://{0}/getcfg.sh',
    'http://{0}/getboardinfo.sh',
    'http://{0}/sta.cgi',
    'http://{0}/ifstats.cgi',
    'http://{0}/iflist.cgi',
    'http://{0}/log.cgi',
]

ips = [
    '1.2.3.4',
    '5.6.7.8',
]

responses_by_ip = {}

for ip in ips:

    # keep a session
    with requests.Session() as s:

        # conduct the login
        r = s.post(
            url=login_url.format(ip),
            data={
                'username': USERNAME,
                'password': PASSWORD,
            },
            verify=False,
            timeout=5,
        )

        # skip this IP if the login fails
        if r.status_code > 201:
            continue

        responses = {}

        # scrape the URLs
        for url in urls:
            url = url.format(ip)

            r = s.get(
                url=url,
                verify=False
            )

            responses.update({url: r.json() if r.status_code == 200 else r.status_code})

        responses_by_ip.update({ip: responses})

pprint.pprint(responses_by_ip)

Thank you very much for this code. It saved my life.

Thanks man 🤝

@Mohmmed66mazen you're welcome! This is pretty old code though- it still works? They haven't changed their firmware much?