Palo Alto Networks XML API with python and beautifulsoup, example prints ARP table

paloalto_xmlapi.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# required pip packages: lxml, beautifulsoup4, tabulate

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
import urllib2
import ssl
import urllib
from tabulate import tabulate

username = "api_test"
password = "supersecurepassword"
firewall = "192.168.111.1"

#####################
# SSL ignore Cert Check (Lab Environment only!)

ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
ctx.check_hostname = False
ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

#####################
# Req function

def req_api(command, key):
    url = "https://%s/api/?key=%s&type=op&cmd=" % (firewall, key) + urllib.quote_plus(command)
    res = urllib2.urlopen(url, context=ctx)
    return res.read()

#####################
# API Key request


req_api_url = "https://%s/api/?type=keygen&user=%s&password=%s" % (firewall, username, password)
res_api_key = urllib2.urlopen(req_api_url, context=ctx)
soup = BS(res_api_key.read(), "lxml")
key = soup.find('key').text

#####################
# Get arp entrys

soup = BS(req_api("<show><arp><entry name = 'all'/></arp></show>", key), "lxml")

arp_buffer = []

for e in soup("entry"):
    arp_buffer.append([e.status.text, e.ip.text, e.ttl.text, e.interface.text, e.port.text, e.mac.text])

print "#" * 120 + "\n> ARP Cache Count: %s\n" %(len(arp_buffer)) + "#" * 120
print tabulate(arp_buffer, headers=['Status', 'IP', 'TTL', 'Interface', 'Port', 'MAC'], tablefmt='orgtbl')