Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Installation and configuration

To work with PortalPy from your local PC, you'll have to install the module. To do so, complete the following steps:

1. On your PC, create a directory called portalpy (mine is C:\Projects\portalpy).
2. Go to the Esri GitHub portalpy repository and download PortalPy. Unzip the archive so portalpy.py sits at the root of the portalpy directory you just created on your local PC.
3. On your PC, create an environmental variable with a variable name of PYTHONPATH whose variable value of the full path to your portalpy folder; in my case, C:\Projects\portalpy.
4. Create a file called test.py in the same directory as portalpy.py, and then enter the following code snippet into test.py:

 import portalpy url = "https://portal_url.com/portal_web_adaptor_name" ...