So your auditors are asking for a CSV of every Xray violation from the last quarter, and you're about to manually click "Export" for 50 different watches and repos, then spend an afternoon merging files? 😬
Been there. The official APIs are fine for real-time integration, but for a simple, periodic data dump to keep compliance teams happy? You don't need another "platform." You need a script that runs on a schedule and dumps everything into a Google Sheet or a CSV on a shared drive.
I built a Python script that does exactly this. It's not fancy, but it works. It:
* Queries the Xray API for violations based on your watches.
* Flattens the nested JSON into sensible columns (CVE, severity, component, impacted artifact, policy, etc.).
* Pushes it to a Google Sheet (using their basic API) or outputs a CSV.
* Runs in a cron job or a simple GitHub Action.
The whole thing is about 150 lines. No external dependencies beyond `requests` and `google-auth`. The key is structuring the API calls to paginate properly and handling the auth (API key or service account). You could absolutely pay for a fancy dashboarding tool to do this, but why? This runs for free and gives the auditors exactly what they want—a spreadsheet.
Less is more.