PHP and how to connect to Web Reports and read/download report

[anon37120095]

I’m a newbie to web report. I’m a PHP developer who works with analysts that have created reports in BigFix Web Report. Is there a way with the proper credential that will allow a PHP web application to connect to the BigFix Web Report and read/download the reports (in the Report List in Web Reports)? Something like this: https://server_host_name:port_number/api/reports/report_ID?token=mytoken. I saw this somewhere in another posting but has not been able to see where or how to go about it. Please direct/help me to the correct documentation on how to begin. Thank you

[Aram]

You can in fact read/access Web Reports via URL, but I believe it require passing user credentials rather than a token.

Here are some posts with examples:

Using Stored Reports with SOAP calls

(imported comment written by Lee Wei) Here is one idea that might work for you. While you cannot extract the data easily from an existing Web Report, you can probably embedded the entire Web Reports page in a iFrame. Find the Report ID of your custom report, then construct a URL to include the some generic reporting credential. For example, when I run a report, I see this URL: http://tintin:52312/webreports?page=CustomReport&ReportID=20#reportInfo=82e5c982f02a098f223bb8411d7e529d170e50f9 I…

WebReport results via SOAP API?

@masonje, there is SOAP API or other API calls to access the results of Web Reports output. Here is an idea. Can the IT dashboard include Web Reports as an iframe? Then you can define a user within Web Reports with restricted capabilities, and hardcode the credentials into a Web Reports URL. For example, this is the URL of a report your have: http://maze:52312/webreports?page=CustomReport&ReportID=20#filterManager=ec269ec8fe2a07fbef4ce17cdcf4292adfae4abd&reportInfo=1f522f5de936f64f7eda101d0…

Essentially, you need to add/include two parameters (“username” & “password”) within a given Report URL.