Cisco Webex Teams Automation

This repository contains some simple scripts to automate tasks in Cisco Webex Teams.

To get started you'll need to install the required modules and update the token as shown below.

Replace {} with your personal token. Do NOT delete the Bearer keyword.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    token = "Bearer {}"	# Personal access token
    main()

For information regarding your access token, click here and sign into your Cisco Webex Teams account.

webex-create-and-add.py

This script creates a new Cisco Webex Teams room, adds a user, and sends a message to the new room.

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Requests
• Cisco Webex Teams account

The details shown below are the default values. Editing them is completely optional.

room_name = "My New Room"               # New room name
user_name = "gifbot@webex.bot"          # User to add to new room
message = "Hello World!"                # Message to send to new room

To run this script, run the command: python webex-create-and-add.py.

excel-to-new-room.py

This script creates a new room, and adds users from an Excel spreadsheet containing email adresses.

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Requests
• Pandas
• Cisco Webex account

This script uses email_addresses.xlsx (included in this repo) as the file containing email addresses. You MUST have this file in the same directory as excel-to-new-room.py.

filename = 'email_addresses.xlsx'       # File containing email_addresses
room_name = "My New Room"               # New room name
message = "Welcome!"                    # Message to send to new room

To run this script, run the command: python excel-to-new-room.py.

Questions/Discussion

If you find an issue, please raise an issue within the issues section.

Also, if you would like to extend one of these scripts for a more specific use case, please feel free to contact me with any questions/concerns you may have.

Trent Bosak
Cisco Technical Sales Engineer Intern