Identify the sharing level of all the items of an owner in ArcGIS Online or the ArcGIS Enterprise portal

Summary

By default, maps, layers, and other items added or published to ArcGIS Online or the ArcGIS Enterprise portal are only accessible to the owner. The sharing level can be viewed by opening the services individually or from the Content tab. However, this process can be automated using ArcGIS API for Python. Follow the workflow described in this article to identify the sharing levels of all items owned by a specific user in ArcGIS Online or the ArcGIS Enterprise portal.

Procedure

1. Import the necessary modules.

from arcgis.gis import GIS

2. Specify the ArcGIS Online or the ArcGIS Enterprise portal credentials to use.

#For ArcGIS Online
gis = GIS('https://arcgis.com', '<username>', '<password>')

#For the ArcGIS Enterprise portal
gis = GIS('https://<machine>.<domain>.com:7443/arcgis', 'Username', 'Password', verify_cert=False)

print ('Connected')

3. Search all the items of the specific owner.

items = gis.content.search ('owner:<Owner_Name>', max_items=-1)

4. Iterate through the items of the specific owner and determine the sharing level of the items.

#For Python version 2.3 and prior
for file in items:
    print (file.title, file.shared_with)

#For Python version 2.4
for file in items:
    print (file.title, file.sharing.shared_with)

The code block below demonstrates the full script in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal with Python version 2.4.

from arcgis.gis import GIS

gis = GIS('https://testdomain.esri.com:7443/arcgis', 'username', 'password', verify_cert=False)
print('Connected')

items = gis.content.search('owner:Owner123', max_items=-1)

for i in items:
	print(i.title, i.sharing.shared_with)