CrossBrowserTesting.com sample for start/stopping and querying running live tests

tests_20130618.py

import time, json

# we use python a lot
# to do api calls with api requests is a great way to go
# see here http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
import requests

# put your own auth information here, login information
# for cbt
# username and password
AUTH_INFO = ("USERNAME-HERE", "PASSWORD-HERE")
APISERVER="http://crossbrowsertesting.com"

# wrapped up way of calling a HTTP GET
def gentest(testname, url, params=None):
  # print testname
	if params is None:
		r = requests.get(url, auth = AUTH_INFO)
	else:
		r = requests.get(url, auth= AUTH_INFO, params = params)

	# for debugging really
	# save the data out to a file so you can see
	outf = open(testname+".txt","w")
	outf.write(r.text)
	outf.close()

	return (r.status_code, r.text)

# wrapped up way of calling a HTTP POST 
def posttest(testname, url, params=None):
	# print testname
	if params is None:
		r = requests.post(url, auth=AUTH_INFO)
	else:
		r = requests.post(url, auth=AUTH_INFO, params = params)

	# for debugging really
	# save the data out to a file so you can see
	outf = open(testname+".txt","w")
	outf.write(r.text)
	outf.close()

	return (r.status_code, r.text)

def start_test(myurl):
	# start a test, HTTP POST

	(status_code, data) = posttest("livetest0", 
		APISERVER + "/api/v3/livetests",
		{ "url" : myurl,
			"browser" : "Ubuntu11.10|FF9|800x600" })
	# do some python magic to get the json
	# object into a python object
	o = json.loads(data)
	live_test_id = o["live_test_id"]

	# print some debugging so we will know what is going on
	print "\tlive test id that we started", live_test_id
	print "\tstate at time of start", o["state"]

	return live_test_id

def get_info(live_test_id):
	(staus_code, data) = gentest("getlivetest0",
			APISERVER + "/api/v3/livetests/" + 
			str(live_test_id))
	o = json.loads(data)
	print "\tlive_test_id", o["live_test_id"]
	print "\tstate", o["state"]
	return o["state"]

def stop_test(live_test_id):
	# stop a live test, HTTP DELETE
	url = APISERVER + "/api/v3/livetests/" + str(live_test_id)
	r = requests.delete(url, auth = AUTH_INFO)
	return (r.status_code, r.text)

def nap(seconds):
	print "sleeping for", seconds, "..."
	time.sleep(seconds)

def test():
	print "starting a test now"
	live_test_id = start_test("http://yahoo.com")
	state = get_info(live_test_id)

	print "looking for a running state..."
	while state!="running":
		nap(5)
		state = get_info(live_test_id)

	nap(30)

	print "stopping..."
	stop_test(live_test_id)
	state = get_info(live_test_id)

	# looking for a stopped state
	if state != "stopped":
		nap(2)
		state = get_info(live_test_id)
	
	print "finished"

test()