Collaborating with Cisco Spark API

Cisco Spark (https://www.ciscospark.com/products/overview.html) is a cloud-based collaboration platform from Cisco. It supports communication and collaboration from multiple devices for meetings, messages, and calls.

ciscosparkapi (https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ciscosparkapi) is an open source project that offers a simple and compact Python-based API to Cisco Spark where all the operations can easily be performed with simple Python calls. In this recipe, we will configure ciscosparkapi.

Cisco Spark is available as a mobile, desktop, and web-based application (https://web.ciscospark.com/signin?mid=22237844097353833060667005765798180584). Following is the web interface of Cisco Spark after signing in:

Cisco Spark Dashboard

Getting ready

Install Spark API:

$ sudo pip install ciscosparkapi

Make sure to export your Spark access token before running this recipe:

$ export SPARK_ACCESS_TOKEN="XXXX"

If your access token is incorrect, you will receive the following error...