Why are websites missing so many features and treated differently than computers?

Question

Every time I try to do something with websites I just get angry. I can't change settings at the group level like I can with resources. Can't easily change thresholds or anything. The Info tab is blank so I can't see any detail about a website. If I try to use the API, the formatting is all different so I can't get any tree/group information to filter results. Everything just sucks about how websites are different than resources. Why is this?

Is there any way to pull a list of all the websites under s certain folder in the tree? I can't find any way to do that. I can't even pull a list of all and then filter by a Group field because it only shows the immediate group and nothing about the higher level groups it's in. I need to check all the sites under a particular top level folder, to make sure the alerting is the same. There appear to be absolutely no way to do this without manually going to each sites and checking it by hand.

Thanks.

stuart_weenig · Answer

Yeah, you'd just have to loop through all groups:
website_groups = lm.get_website_group_list(size=1000).items
for group in website_groups:
    websites = lm.get_website_list(size=1000, filter=f"groupId:{group.id}").items
    print(f"{group.full_path}: {','.join([x.name for x in websites])}")
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stuart_weenig · Answer

This should be getting better soon as websites are slated to be moved to the resources page "soon" and would be treated like any other object there.
As for getting the list under a group, you just need the group id then make a call to the api to get the list. Use the SDK and lmwrapper for this.
websites = lm.get_website_list(size=1000, filter="groupId:74").items
Where 74 is the id of the group in question.

kelemvor · Answer

That only works for the immediate group.&nbsp; I need subgroups included as well.&nbsp; Since websites don't contain the FullPath field like resources do, I don't think there is any way to do this.

stuart_weenig · Answer

One liner if you play code golf:
for group in lm.get_website_group_list(size=1000).items: print(f"{group.full_path}: {','.join([x.name for x in lm.get_website_list(size=1000, filter=f'groupId:{group.id}').items])}")
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stuart_weenig · Answer

If you want the list per root group:
all_websites = {group.full_path: ','.join([x.name for x in lm.get_website_list(size=1000, filter=f'groupId:{group.id}').items]) for group in lm.get_website_group_list(size=1000).items}
by_root_group = {}
for full_path, websites in all_websites.items():
    rootpath = full_path.split("/")[0]
    if rootpath in by_root_group.keys():
        by_root_group[rootpath] += websites
    else:
        by_root_group[rootpath] = websites

for k,v in by_root_group.items(): print(f"{k}: {v}")
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