Download / Scrape Salesforce Reports in 4 lines of Python

Python Code:

import requests
l = requests.get("https://login.salesforce.com/?un=USERNAME&pw=PASSWORD")
d = requests.get("https://na3.salesforce.com/REPORT_ID?view=d&snip&export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=csv",cookies=l.cookies)
print d.content

References:

http://sfdc-heretic.warped-minds.com/2006/04/10/progmatic-access-to-salesforcecom-reports/

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#cookies

http://www.techsmog.com/index.php/2011/02/08/parsing-real-time-salesforce-com-reports-via-perlcgi-html-tables/

About brendansterne

Sr Director, Indeed.com Product Incubator
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