Save snapshot from ONVIF enabled camera using python

onvif-snapshot.py

# pip install onvif-zeep

# import package
import requests
from onvif import ONVIFCamera

# create onvif camera object
cam_obj = ONVIFCamera(CAMERA_HOST, CAMERA_PORT, CAMERA_USER, CAMERA_PASS)

# create media service
media_service = cam_obj.create_media_service()

# get all profiles available
get_all_profiles = media_service.GetProfiles()

# select the main profile (main stream)
main_stream = get_all_profiles[0]

# access profile token (some profile may contain token in '_token' key)
profile_token = main_stream.token

# get snapshot uri all info
snapshot_uri_info = media_service.GetSnapshotUri({
                        'ProfileToken': profile_token
                    })

# access the snap uri
snapshot_uri = str(snapshot_uri_info.Uri)

# if you want to add user and pass in url
snapshot_uri = snapshot_uri.replace('http://', f'http://{CAMERA_USER}:{CAMERA_PASS}@')

print(snapshot_uri)

# save snapshot to file
response = requests.request("POST", snapshot_uri)
if response.status_code == 200:
    image_name = "somename"
    fp = open(f'{image_name}.jpg', 'wb')
    fp.write(response.content)
    fp.close()