Title: Using the ArcGIS API for Python in Cambridge
Time Slot: Monday November 6, 2017 11:00am - 11:30am
Author: Sean Sweeney, GIS Programmer Analyst, City of Cambridge

Abstract: The new ArcGIS API for Python has greatly simplified automation with ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS. It abstracts away most of the gory low-level details that used to be required to interact with the ArcGIS REST API. Get a brief overview of what the ArcGIS API for Python is and how it fits into the Esri developer ecosystem, and demos of some of the ways that Cambridge is trying take advantage of this new tool.

• Slides
• Slides with notes
• ArcGIS API for Python
• Sample Python code for extracting metadata from SDE (including thumbnail)
• My 2019 Fall NEARC presentation: Migrating AGOL User Accounts Using the ArcGIS API for Python

The following files from the presentation demos are available in this repo. Note that the update method inputs are hard coded in this demo for brevity and clarity. These will need to be parameterized for your own use.

• Updating AGOL item metadata Jupyter notebook
• Updating AGOL item metadata Python code
• Accessing and managing users Jupyter notebook
• Leon Scott's UpdateHostedFeatureSvc_Pro