a script that updates the templated variables to be the ones that I wanted within a specified timeframe

influx_tag_grafana_time.py

from influxdb import InfluxDBClient
import json
import requests

INFLUX_UN
INFLUX_PW
INFLUX_DB
INFLUX_PORT
INFLUX_HOST
INFLUX_MEASUREMENT
INFLUX_QUERY
GRAFANA_API_KEY
GRAFANA_HOST
GRAFANA_DB


client = InfluxDBClient(INFLUX_HOST, INFLUX_PORT, INFLUX_UN, INFLUX_PW, INFLUX_DB)
result = client.query('INFLUX_QUERY where time > now() - 1d')

userids = []
for item in list(result[INFLUX_MEASUREMENT]):
    userids.append(item[u'distinct'])

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer GRAFANA_API_KEY"}
dashboard = requests.get("http://GRAFANA_HOST/api/dashboards/db/GRAFANA_DB", headers=headers).json()

dashboard['dashboard']['templating']['list'][1]['current'] = {u'text': ' + '.join(userids)}
dashboard['dashboard']['templating']['list'][1]['current']['value'] = userids

dashboard['overwrite'] = True
headers["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'

result = requests.post("http://GRAFANA_HOST/api/dashboards/db", headers=headers, data=json.dumps(dashboard))
print result.json()