Copy a web map item

[SergStol]

Hello,

We are considering to use Python API for one of our projects in order to automate work order creation. A possible scenario consists of copying an existing master template web map, renaming it with work order ID and maybe changing a few other settings. So this is basically what you can do manually in AGOL by clicking on "Save As" within the web map.

However, currently I cannot find a way to do that in the API. I use search function to find the web map item of interest and find it successfully. Intellisense is telling me that there is a method of "Item" class called "copy", although when I went to explore the "gis" python module directly in the Visual Studio, I could not find such a method. Is this method in development for the upcoming stable release? And if not, could anyone recommend me a way to achieve what I need?

Thank you,

Serj

[SergStol]

Okay, I have figured out a way to do this using this sample https://developers.arcgis.com/python/sample-notebooks/Publishing-web-maps-and-web-scenes/

My test code which copies 6 instances of the web map:

webmap = gis.content.search(query = 'title:PC_Test', item_type=None, sort_field='numViews', sort_order='desc', max_items=9999)

testmap = webmap[0]

web_map_dict = testmap.get_data(try_json=True)

x = 0
while x <= 5:
    title = "PC_Test_" + str(x)
    web_map_properties = {'title': title,
                         'type':'Web Map',
                         'snippet':'This web map copied from template',
                         'tags':'ArcGIS Python API PC Test',
                         'text':json.dumps(web_map_dict)}

    web_map_item = gis.content.add(web_map_properties)