Callback Handler with Python

Description

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The handler or web hook described here processes callbacks from the GrabzIt screenshot web service. The URL of this handler is passed to GrabzIt in the callBackURL parameter of the Save method. However this technique will only work if the handler is accessible via the Internet.

The following parameters are passed to the handler as GET parameters.

id - the unique identifier of the screenshot, used by the GetResult method
filename - the filename of the screenshot, automatically created by combining the screenshot's unique identifier with it's file extension
message - any message due to an error caused during the processing of the screenshot
customId - any custom id that was passed to the GrabzIt web service via the Save method
format - the format of the screenshot, e.g "bmp8", "bmp16", "bmp24", "bmp", "csv", "gif", "jpg", "json", "pdf", "png", "webp", "tiff" or "xlsx"
targeterror - if a 1 is returned then the capture contains a generic error, due to an issue caused by the capture target

If you want to block all access to the handler, except from GrabzIt then use this security technique.

Example

Remember this callback will not work if your application is located on localhost.

This example shows how the GrabzIt Python handler can be implemented. This captures six parameters passed to it from the GrabzIt service, including the unique id of the screenshot which is passed to the GetResult method.

This method then returns the screenshot, which is saved in the results directory. However if a null value is returned from the GetResult method this indicates that an error has occured.

import os
import cgi
from GrabzIt import GrabzItClient
from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser

form = cgi.FieldStorage()

message = form.getvalue("message")
customId = form.getvalue("customid")
id = form.getvalue("id")
filename = form.getvalue("filename")
format = form.getvalue("format")
targeterror = form.getvalue("targeterror")

# Custom id can be used to store user ids or whatever is needed for the later processing of the
# resulting screenshot

grabzIt = GrabzItClient.GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret")%>")
result = grabzIt.GetResult(id)

if result != None:
        # Ensure that the application has the correct rights for this directory.
        fo = open("results" + os.sep + filename, "wb")
        fo.write(result)
        fo.close()
        
print "Status: 200 OK"
print