Invoke webjob from python

Question

Is it possible to invoke a webjob from python?
I currently have a web app and webjob on azure. My webjob is set to triggered/manual and want to run it from python code whenever user does a specific action.
something like this from c#:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("https://<web appname>.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/triggeredwebjobs/<web job name>/run"); request.Method = "POST"; var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("user:password"); request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic "+ Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray)); request.ContentLength = 0;

I did some research and I saw one post that suggested to use azure-sdk-for-python. But I'm not sure if that was any help as far as "triggering the webjob".

As reference, please refer to the kudu wiki page github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/WebJobs-API and to use the webjob REST APIs. — Peter Pan
– Peter Pan, Commented Feb 15, 2017 at 9:47

VMAtm · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-17 03:19:19Z

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If you need simply to post a request to the azure, you can use a httplib (http.client in Python 3) like this:

import base64, httplib headers = {"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode("user:password")} conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("https://<web appname>.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/triggeredwebjobs/<web job name>/run") conn.request("POST", "", "", headers) response = conn.getresponse() print response.status, response.reason

If you need some more complicated, you better investigate the azure-sdk-for-python package, but I can't see there anything about the webjobs right now.

This works with postman:

edited Feb 17, 2017 at 3:19

answered Feb 15, 2017 at 4:50

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scorpion5211 Over a year ago

Thank you for the answer. After doing more research i found that webjob can be indeed invoked by post call. it does work using postman but doesnt work with the code similar to the one you posted. Im thinking it could be related to syntax.

VMAtm Over a year ago

The code above is for Python 2, for the Python 3 it do slightly differ

scorpion5211 Over a year ago

the code is fine, i am using python3 and had to modify it with http.client and some other minor changes. It runs without errors just does not do anything (does not start the webjob). I can post the screenshot of postman and my code for better understanding.

VMAtm Over a year ago

Maybe you need different headers

scorpion5211 Over a year ago

I added the screenshot of the postman post call that works maybe you can give me a further help.

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