Hi community

I’m building an internal automation where our Django server receives Samsara event webhooks (e.g., harsh braking, distracted driving, etc.). The webhook payload includes a video link for the event.

👉 What I want:
As soon as the webhook hits my Django API, I need to automatically download the video from Samsara (so we can later send it to our Telegram bot and archive it).

Currently:

• I have set up the webhook endpoint in Django.
• I can receive the JSON payload successfully when an event happens.
• The payload has something like "incidentUrl": "https://cloud.samsara.com/o/7002595/fleet/workflows/incidents/...".

Problems / Questions:

What is the correct way to authenticate and download the video file once I get the URL from the webhook? Do I need to call another Samsara API first?

Is there a recommended workflow for downloading videos (e.g., should I queue the download in Celery to avoid blocking the webhook response)?

How long are these event videos stored/available on Samsara’s servers? Do I need to download them immediately?

Any Python/Django code examples for securely downloading videos from Samsara API would be really helpful.

Basically, my pipeline should be:
Webhook → Django → fetch video → save locally → forward to Telegram group.

Has anyone here implemented this before, or can share best practices / pitfalls?

Thanks! 🙏