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How can I export a Feature Layer in AGOL to Shapefile, using API for Python?

SergioInfanzón — Mon, 07 May 2018 10:41:45 GMT

In AGOL you can export a layer to Shapefile, but I can't do it with the API for Python. I have only achieved it with some layer, passing through CSV, but it gives me many errors (text fields that pass to numeric, or layers that do not find the delimiter).

Can someone help me?

Thank you very much

Re: How can I export a Feature Layer in AGOL to Shapefile, using API for Python?

J_R_Matchett — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:50:45 GMT

An arcgis Item has an export method that will save to another format. For example:

from arcgis.gis import GIS
gis = GIS(username='name', password='pass')
item = gis.content.get('ITEM_ID')
item_shp = item.export(title='item_shapefile', export_format='Shapefile')
# item_shp is stored on AGOL, it can be downloaded locally if desired
item_shp.download()
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Re: How can I export a Feature Layer in AGOL to Shapefile, using API for Python?

PaulSweeney3 — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:06:04 GMT

HI J.R. Matchett‌

Can this item be queried to reduce download sizes , say everything created in the last week for example ?

Paul

Re: How can I export a Feature Layer in AGOL to Shapefile, using API for Python?

J_R_Matchett — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:50:48 GMT

Yes, you can query the features you want, access the SpatialDataFrame, and export to a shapefile. For example:

layer = item.layers[0]
features = layer.query('created_date >= CURRENT_TIMESTAMP - 7')
features.sdf.spatial.to_featureclass('./output.shp')‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The output shapefile will be saved locally in this case.

Re: How can I export a Feature Layer in AGOL to Shapefile, using API for Python?

RDCOGIS — Fri, 30 May 2025 21:21:34 GMT

nothing like being 6 years late to the conversation, but I just discovered the easiest way to grab data from a REST end-point, with query option, and save as Shapefile

from arcgis.features import FeatureLayer # query the FeatureLayer to produce a FeatureSet print('querying the Feature Layer') fl = FeatureLayer(_itemUrl) features = fl.query(where='Shape is not NULL', out_sr=26911) # save to disk print('saving the Feature Layer to Shapefile') features.save(save_location=_pathShps, out_name=_friendlyName + '.shp')