Step 2 - Get attachments

3_GetAttachments.py

import os, urllib, urllib2, simplejson as json

cwd = os.getcwd()

### Generate Token ###
gtUrl = 'https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/generateToken'
gtValues = {'username' : 'username',
          'password' : 'password',
          'referer' : 'http://www.arcgis.com',
          'f' : 'json' }
gtData = urllib.urlencode(gtValues)
gtRequest = urllib2.Request(gtUrl, gtData)
gtResponse = urllib2.urlopen(gtRequest)
gtJson = json.load(gtResponse)
token = gtJson['token']

### Get Attachment ###
with open('damageassessmentservice.json') as data_file:
    data = json.load(data_file)

for x in data['layers'][0]['attachments']:
    gaUrl = x['url']
    gaFolder = cwd + '\\photos\\' + x['parentGlobalId']
    if not os.path.exists(gaFolder):
        os.makedirs(gaFolder)
    gaName = x['name']
    gaValues = {'token' : token }
    gaData = urllib.urlencode(gaValues)
    urllib.urlretrieve(url=gaUrl + '/' + gaName, filename=os.path.join(gaFolder, gaName),data=gaData)