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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+
+##################################################################
+# CDAP Pipeline Extraction Tool
+#
+# Author: Tony Hajdari, tony@adaptivescale.com
+#
+# Use:  Allows you to extract all the deployed 
+#       pipelines from your CDAP instance.
+##################################################################
+import requests, json, logging, sys, os
+
+# Logger Config
+log = logging.getLogger('')
+log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+format = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s")
+ch = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
+ch.setFormatter(format)
+log.addHandler(ch)
+
+host = 'localhost'
+port = '11015'
+cdap = 'http://' + host + ':' + port
+namespaces = '/v3/namespaces'
+version = '/v3/version'
+drafts = '/v3/configuration/user'
+p = {'name': '', 'description': '', 'artifact': '', 'config': ''}
+output = 'exported_pipelines'
+
+
+def getJSON(url):
+    r = requests.get(url)
+    d = r.json()
+    return d  # returns a dict
+
+def getVersion():
+    ver = getJSON(cdap + version).get('version')
+    return ver
+
+# Example of an App collection endpoint
+# http://localhost:11015/v3/namespaces/default/apps
+def getApps(ns):
+    return getJSON(cdap + namespaces + '/' + ns + '/apps')
+
+
+# Example of an individual App endpoint
+# http://localhost:11015/v3/namespaces/default/apps/MyAppName
+def getApp(ns,pipeline_name):
+    return getJSON(cdap + namespaces + '/' + ns + '/apps' + '/' + pipeline_name)
+
+
+# Get the available namespaces for this CDAP instance
+def getNamespaces():
+    return getJSON(cdap + namespaces)
+
+
+# Get pipeline drafts
+def getDrafts():
+    return getJSON(cdap + drafts)
+
+
+# Write the pipelline config out to a file
+def exportPipeline(ns, pipeline_name, data):
+    fileName = pipeline_name + '.json'
+    directory = output + '/' + ns
+    path = directory + '/' + fileName
+
+    if not os.path.exists(directory):
+        os.makedirs(directory)
+
+    with open(path, 'w') as f:
+        f.write(data)
+
+
+# Get the draft pipelines -- this is NOT namespace specific
+# will retrieve the drafts in ALL namespaces
+cdap_version = getVersion()
+drafts = getDrafts()
+
+# loop through all namespaces
+for namespace in getNamespaces():
+
+    # set the global namespace name
+    ns = namespace.get('name')
+    log.debug('Namespace: %s', ns)
+
+    # get all the drafts per namespace
+    d = drafts.get('property').get('hydratorDrafts').get(ns)
+    if not d:
+        log.info('There are no draft pipelines in namespace: {}'.format(ns))
+    else:
+        for item in d.items():
+            name = item[1]['name']
+            p['name'] = name
+            p['description'] = item[1]['description']
+            p['artifact'] = item[1]['artifact']
+            p['config'] = item[1]['config']
+            spec = json.dumps(p)
+            # log.debug('Draft Pipeline: %s', spec)
+            exportPipeline(ns, name + '-DRAFT-' + cdap_version, spec)
+
+    # get the deployed pipelines in this namespace
+    for i in getApps(ns):
+        # filer out anything other than cdap-data-pipeline
+        artifactType = i.get('artifact').get('name')
+        if "cdap-data-pipeline" in artifactType:
+            pipeline_name = i['name']
+            if not pipeline_name in ('_Tracker', 'dataprep'):
+                log.debug('App Namespace: %s', ns)
+                log.debug('Pipeline name: %s', pipeline_name)
+                app = getApp(ns, pipeline_name)
+                # log.debug('Pipeline = %s', json.dumps(app, sort_keys=True, indent=4))
+                p['name'] = app.get('name')
+                p['description'] = app.get('description')
+                p['artifact'] = app.get('artifact')
+                p['config'] = json.loads(app.get('configuration'))
+                spec = json.dumps(p, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+                # exportPipeline(ns, pipeline_name + cdap_version, spec)
+                exportPipeline(ns, pipeline_name, spec)