Get Task Status (Logs) via API

[louiswinter]

Does anybody know how to the the detailed log entries for a task execution via the API?  I can get the task execution status (progress, status, etc) using "get /tasks/{taskId}/executions/{id}" but I can't figure out how to get the information from the lower section of the Task Execution screen.  The following is an example of the data I want to retrieve for a task execution:

March 15, 2021 11:28:52 AM	Info	Starting content resolution for report 39046a9d-4d46-46ac-8575-76dc54fc36a3
March 15, 2021 11:28:53 AM	Info	Starting content resolution for report 1cbbf6a5-fcc1-414c-957d-f27b1fa29202
March 15, 2021 11:28:53 AM	Info	Starting content resolution for report 99d98943-1b26-4653-8fdd-2b428b3754ee
March 15, 2021 11:28:54 AM	Info	Starting content resolution for report dc7a2086-2963-4599-90fb-364e1c87b1fd
March 15, 2021 11:28:54 AM	Info	Starting content resolution for report 67d427aa-c41f-47b4-85f8-cb40f15fb62d
March 15, 2021 11:29:14 AM	Info	Finished content resolution for report 1cbbf6a5-fcc1-414c-957d-f27b1fa29202

Thanks.

[Lech_Miszkiewicz · Accepted solution]

Hi, I dont think this is possible. 

Simply looking at API documentation you can tell that there is no endpoint which will return this info. 

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/February2021/APIs/NP+API/index.html?page=116

If you are a little bit more advanced in APIs you may as well tap into NPE API (api which is used by NPrinting interface). It is not documented nor supported by Qlik and everything you will need to figure out step by step by using DEV tool in your web browser. 

Starting from authentication you would be able to see what calls need to be made to get session cookie, once you have it you can then proceed to particular menu in admin console to get see what would be the endpoints.... 

If it is really important for you, then sure.. I guess 1 day of playing with it, 1 day of coding, 1 day of testing, another debugging and fixing and 1 for final review.... so 1 week of work and you have solution built...

Is it someting worth 1 week of work?

See screenshots:

 

[louiswinter · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the insight.  Unfortunately I'd like to get this information in a command line utility I wrote to automate our nightly processing.  I tried simply calling the NPE endpoint with the cookie generated on the standard api login/ntlm request and it didn't work.  With the NPE API being undocumented I'm not sure where to begin with the authentication so I think I'll just submit a feature request for now.