get_incident_info.py

def get_dp_info(session, access_token, incident):

    url = DP_BASE_URL + 'idb/sessions/filter/'
    
    # transform session name format
    zeros_to_prefix = 4 - len(incident['session_name'].split('-')[-1])
    session_name = incident['session_name'].replace('-', ' ' + zeros_to_prefix * '0')
    
    payload = json.dumps({
        "filter": {
            "sessionType": [0],
            "datalist": incident['specification'],
            "name": session_name
        }
    })
    
    headers = {
        'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(access_token),
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }

    response = session.post(url, headers=headers, data=payload)
    
    if len(json.loads(response.text)['items'])>0:
        incident['sessionType'] = json.loads(response.text)['items'][0]['sessionType']
        incident['status'] = json.loads(response.text)['items'][0]['status']
        incident['backupType'] = json.loads(response.text)['items'][0]['backupType']
        incident['endTime'] = json.loads(response.text)['items'][0]['endTime']
        return incident
    else:
        print('cant find dp session record for ', incident['session_name'])

#call this using
final_list = []
for incident in snow_data:
    inc = get_dp_info(session, access_token, incident)
    final_list.append(inc)

#discarding the ones which are empty    
final_list = [i for i in final_list if i]