I wrote a python script to connect to the Qlik engine API via websocket to gather information about the content of a table and export it. The whole script is working and as a result I receive a qURL that I append to my server URL and get the final URL. After adding this URL into the browser, the browser is downloading the file. So far, so good.
Expected Outcome
I would like my script to access this URL and download the CSV file locally. But so far none of my attempts worked. Whenever I tried using the request module, a timeout was presented to me without any file.
Reading in another post, I learned one can't download that file through a websocket. You need to do an HTTP GET to download it. But for the HTTP GET you also need to send the session cookie of the websocket session.
So how can I catch the cookie from the header response of the websocket session? I checked
websocket.enableTrace(True) and was able to see the cookie put can't save it to a variable this way.
And even after getting the cookie, where should I send my GET request to, to access the file from the download?
Does anyone have a solid solution here? I just need the content of the file but I'm out of ideas and found only snippets to various attempts without solving this riddle.
