Fetching a list of tasks related to Office 365 backup and recovery

1. Authenticate to the cloud platform via the Python shell.

   The following variables should be available now:

   >>> base_url  # the base URL of the API
   'https://eu2-cloud.acronis.com/api/task_manager/v2'
   >>> auth  # the 'Authorization' header value with the access token
   {'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImMwMD...'}
   

2. Define a variable named filters, and then assign an object with the type key containing the list of types related to Office 365 backup and recovery to this variable:

   >>> filters = {
   ...     'type': [
   ...         'UserMailboxBackup', 'SPBackup', 'ODBackup', 'GSBackupGMail', 'GSBackupGDrive',
   ...         'UserMailboxRestore', 'SPRestore', 'ODRestore', 'GSRestoreGMail', 'GSRestoreGDrive'
   ...     ]
   ... }
   

3. Send a GET request to the /tasks endpoint:

   >>> response = requests.get(f'{base_url}/tasks', headers=auth, params=filters)
   

4. Check the status code of the response:

   >>> response.status_code
   200
   

   Status code 200 means that the request was successful.

   A different status code means that an error has occurred. For the details, refer to “Status and error codes”.

   Also, the response body contains the items array of task objects formatted as a JSON text. When converted to an object, it will look as follows:

   >>> pprint.pprint(response.json())
   {'items': [{'cancelRequested': False,
           'cancellable': True,
           'startedAt': '2020-04-22T11:34:03.290396913Z',
           'completedAt': '2020-04-22T11:34:03.290396913Z',
           'type': 'UserMailboxBackup',
           ...}
           ...]}