Find a Shot

Building the Query

We are going to assume we know the ‘id’ of the Shot we’re looking for in this example.:

filters = [['id', 'is', 40435]]
result = sg.find_one('Shot', filters)

Pretty simple right? Well here’s a little more insight into what’s going on.

filters is an list of filter conditions. In this example we are filtering for Shots where the id column is 40435.
sg is the Flow Production Tracking API instance.
find_one() is the find_one() API method we are calling. We provide it with the entity type we’re searching for and our filters.

Seeing the Result

So what does this return? The variable result now contains:

{'type': 'Shot','id': 40435}

By default, find_one() returns a single dictionary object with the type and id fields. So in this example, we found a Shot matching that id, and Flow Production Tracking returned it as a dictionary object with type and id keys .

How do we know that result contains the Shot dictionary object? You can trust us… but just to be sure, the pprint (PrettyPrint) module from the Python standard library is a really good tool to help with debugging. It will print out objects in a nicely formatted way that makes things easier to read. So we’ll add that to the import section of our script.:

import shotgun_api3
from pprint import pprint # useful for debugging

The Complete Example

#!/usr/bin/env python

# --------------------------------------
# Imports
# --------------------------------------
import shotgun_api3
from pprint import pprint # useful for debugging

# --------------------------------------
# Globals
# --------------------------------------
# make sure to change this to match your Flow Production Tracking server and auth credentials.
SERVER_PATH = "https://my-site.shotgrid.autodesk.com"
SCRIPT_NAME = 'my_script'
SCRIPT_KEY = '27b65d7063f46b82e670fe807bd2b6f3fd1676c1'

# --------------------------------------
# Main
# --------------------------------------
if __name__ == '__main__':

    sg = shotgun_api3.Shotgun(SERVER_PATH, SCRIPT_NAME, SCRIPT_KEY)

    # --------------------------------------
    # Find a Shot by id
    # --------------------------------------
    filters = [['id', 'is', 40435]]
    result = sg.find_one('Shot', filters)
    pprint(result)

And here is the output:

{'type': 'Shot','id': 40435}