Taking Fullscreen Snapshots

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from arlo import Arlo

USERNAME = 'user@example.com'
PASSWORD = 'supersecretpassword'

try:
	# Instantiating the Arlo object automatically calls Login(), which returns an oAuth token that gets cached.
	# Subsequent successful calls to login will update the oAuth token.
	arlo = Arlo(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
	# At this point you're logged into Arlo.

	# Get the list of devices and filter on device type to only get the basestation.
	# This will return an array which includes all of the basestation's associated metadata.
	basestations = arlo.GetDevices('basestation')

        # Get the list of devices and filter on device type to only get the camera.
        # This will return an array which includes all of the camera's associated metadata.
        cameras = arlo.GetDevices('camera')

        # Tells the Arlo basestation to trigger a snapshot on the given camera.
        # This snapshot is not instantaneous, so this method waits for the response and returns the url
        # for the snapshot, which is stored on the Amazon AWS servers. 
        snapshot_url = arlo.TriggerFullFrameSnapshot(basestations[0], cameras[0])
        
        # This method requests the snapshot for the given url and writes the image data to the location specified.
        # In this case, to the current directory as a file named "snapshot.jpg"
        # Note: Snapshots are in .jpg format.
        arlo.DownloadSnapshot(snapshot_url, 'snapshot.jpg')

except Exception as e:
    print(e)