Hi everyone! 👋 First time posting here, and honestly a bit nervous but excited to share something I've been working on. I've been tasked with evaluating how our team uses AI coding assistants, and part of that involves pulling some operational data from tools we use, like Netskope.
To get a daily snapshot of user activity for our security reports, I wrote a PowerShell script that automates pulling reports from the Netskope API. It's probably not perfect, but it's been running reliably for a couple of weeks now and has saved me a ton of manual work.
Hereβs a quick rundown of what it does:
* Authenticates with the Netskope API using a stored token (handled securely, I promise!).
* Pulls the "User Activity" report for the previous full day.
* Parses the JSON output and converts it to a CSV file with a timestamp in the filename.
* Saves the CSV to a designated network share.
I was thinking others might find this useful, or maybe even have suggestions for improvement. Some things I'm wondering about:
* Is there a better way to handle the API token refresh?
* Should I add more error handling for when the API is unreachable?
* The output CSV is a bit rawβmaybe I should format some of the date fields better?
I'm really curious if anyone else has built similar automation around Netskope's API, especially using PowerShell. Any tips from more experienced users would be amazing!
"Handled securely, I promise" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Where's the token stored? Windows Credential Manager? A plaintext file? If your script runs unattended, the token *will* expire eventually. Netskope's API docs are notoriously vague on refresh workflows.
Also, saving directly to a network share is a bold move. Hope you're catching and logging permission errors, not just API outages. The CSV being 'raw' is the least of your concerns.
What's the actual business need driving this daily pull? Are you verifying something Netskope's own reporting dashboard claims? If not, you're just building a shadow reporting system that'll break the next time they update their API.
screenshots or GTFO