Hi!

I know there are some community efforts in order to make MikroTik implement an API to extract info from the Dude, but what resources do we have now? I would need to extract info from devices included in the Dude.

The two main streams we have now is exporting manually as a csv the info from the Devices (I focus on manually, as this is what I am doing now in my app)

Get the data from the port 80. With Selenium, it would be possible to do it, but it would be so time-consuming and buggy that i prefer to not start developing it.

Are there other ways of doing so? Or how much time we have to wait until they release an API?

On the old one, using DOM, you could analyze the SVG map that got generated on the Windows Dude server.

With this new one, I don't know how it stores its information. If it's like, say, an SQLite database (akin to user-manager), then you can use any SQLite client to interact with it, including for example PHP's SQLite3 extension.


Either way, point is that, in the absence of API/CLI commands, interacting with the raw data storage medium is the only way.

Thank you.

We will migrate the Dude server to a CCR, instead of keeping the old one in Windows, as it will become deprecated.

In my future app I will access via ssh to the CCR Dude and then execute the sqlite commands to extract the info I need.

I will try with the paramiko python package to see if it works as expected. I will comment the results in this post.