Python script to demonstrate usage of Zabbix 1.8 API. Depends on requests module. (http://docs.python-requests.org/) API spec : https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/api

zabbix_api.py

# vim: set fileencoding=utf8
#
# authenticate with zabbix api server, and retrieve monitored hosts
# specification : https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/api
#
# $ python zabbix_api.py
import requests
from pprint import pprint
import json

ZABIX_ROOT = 'http://localhost/zabbix'
url = ZABIX_ROOT + '/api_jsonrpc.php'

########################################
# user.login
########################################
payload = {
    "jsonrpc" : "2.0",
    "method" : "user.login",
    "params": {
      'user': 'api',
      'password':'api',
    },
    "auth" : None,
    "id" : 0,
}
headers = {
    'content-type': 'application/json',
}
res  = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
res = res.json()
print 'user.login response'
pprint(res)

########################################
# host.get
########################################
payload = {
    "jsonrpc" : "2.0",
    "method" : "host.get",
    "params": {
      'output': [
          'hostid',
          'name'],
    },
    "auth" : res['result'],
    "id" : 2,
}
res2 = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
res2 = res2.json()
print 'host.get response'
pprint(res2)