Meraki Dashboard API

Access to your Cisco Meraki cloud-managed in a pythonic way. Also available via PIP

Prerequisites

You need to enable APIs in your Meraki dashboard and obtain an APIKey: Instructions

Example

from meraki import Dashboard

apikey = "jkhsfsdhk32424******example*****jlasdfsdfl3245345"

dash = Dashboard(apikey)

# list all organizations
myOrgs = dash.organizations.list()
print(myOrgs)

# list all organization's networks
myNets = dash.organizations.networks(<orgId>)
print(myNets)

Since the other options available are complex or old school, my need was a more pythonic and object oriented way.

The 90% of que API belong to the /networks endpoint and from there appears some groups, in the Meraki documentation these groups are represented as isolated, but most of them belong to the same parent endpoint.

The oficial implementation is a simple functional programming (old school) and the guzmonne implementation is, I think, a really complex approach returning instances inside another instances.

Ex:

response = meraki.organizations().index()
json = response.json()

Instead I use some magic methods to instantiate the classes following a strict URL pattern.

Ex:

client = dash.networks.clients.get(<networkId>, <clientId>)
print(client)

I use args to build the URL path and kwargs to pass query parameters each endpoint .

Ex:

dev = dash.networks.devices.loss_and_latency(<networkId>, <serial>, uplink=‘wan1’, ip=‘1.2.3.4’, timespan=7200)
print(dev)

For POST and PUT methods you can use a kwargs data or update.

Ex.

payload = {
	'name': 'My AP',
	'tags': 'recently-added ',
	'lat': 37.4180951010362,
	'lng': -122.098531723022,
	'address': 'some place',
	'notes': 'no notes',
	'moveMapMarker': True
}
dev = dash.networks.devices.update(<networkId>, <serial>, update=payload)
print(dev)