Quick and dirty script to check status of last 100 jobs on picloud.

picloud_health_check.py

import logging
import requests
import lxml.html
import collections

def picloud_health_check(username, password):
  
	# setup session 
	session = requests.Session()
	session.verify = False
	
	# get the login page 
	resp = session.get('https://www.picloud.com/accounts/login/')

	# grab the csrf token 
	# <input type='hidden' name='csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='....' />
	csrfmiddlewaretoken = resp.text.split("csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='")[1].split("'")[0]
	logging.info("token: %s" % csrfmiddlewaretoken)
	
	# login 
	resp = session.post('https://www.picloud.com/accounts/login/', headers=dict(Referer=resp.url), data=dict(
		username = username, 
		password = password, 
		next = '/accounts/',
		csrfmiddlewaretoken = csrfmiddlewaretoken))
	
	# try to grab the latest 100 jobs 
	resp = session.post('https://www.picloud.com/accounts/jobs/search/', data=dict(
		num_results=100,
		page_num=1,
		collapse=True,	
		timezone=4,
		postid=2))
	
	# count the different statuses and return as dict 
	doc = lxml.html.fromstring(resp.text.encode("UTF-8"))
	statuses = [x.text_content() for x in doc.xpath('//job/status')]
	status_counts = dict(collections.Counter(statuses).most_common())
	return status_counts

if __name__ == '__main__':
	logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
	print repr(picloud_health_check('[email protected]','password'))