python - How to download a report as a CSV directly from Salesforce Lightning?

Question

I am creating a Python script for downloading a report from Salesforce as a CSV.

My script is working perfectly fine for Salesforce Classic. However, I need to get it working for Lightning Experience. I'm using the simple-salesforce Python package to access our org. For SF Classic I enter a link that is structured like this: https://my-company.my.salesforce.com/my_report_id?view=d&snip&export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=csv

The script is basically like this:

from simple-salesforce import Salesforce
import requests
import pandas as pd
import csv
from io import StringIO

sf = Salesforce(username="my_username", password="my_password",
                security_token="my_token")
sf_org = "https://my_company.my.salesforce.com/"
report_id = "0000" # Some report id

sf_report_loc = "{0}{1}?view=d&snip&export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=csv".format(sf_org, report_id)

response = requests.get(sf_report_loc, headers=sf.headers, cookies={"sid": sf.session_id})
new_report = response.content.decode("utf-8")
df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(new_report)) # Save the report to a DataFrame.

Whenever I switch to Lightning, the link is invalid and I get redirected. Is there a way to make this work in Lightning?

Answer 1

Try with isdtp parameter. In classic it was used to force view pages without sidebar or header, for example add isdtp=vw to a random page and see what happens.

https://my_company.my.salesforce.com/00O.....?isdtp=p1&export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=csv ?

(no idea what's 'p1' but that's what I see in Chrome's download history as part of the report's source URL)