title: How to serach specific to date range in Splunk - In my case date modifier is not working for the splunk rest API - services/search/jobs/export?
body: <p>I've written python code to download data from splunk for the given search and given date range but it seems date range is not working- I can see logs which are outside of the date that I've entered.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my code snippet:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def download_binary_file(self, url_path, output_file_path, auth, data):
         self.logger.debug("Entering DatacenterSplunk.download_binary_file() for dc " + self.datacenter)
         print("Writing logs to file: " + output_file_path)
         try:
             s = requests.Session()
             r = s.post(url_path, auth=auth, data=data, stream=True, verify=self.verify_cert)
             r.raise_for_status()
             with open(output_file_path, 'wb') as f:
                 for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=512):
                     if chunk:
                         f.write(chunk)
                 f.close()
         except Exception as e:
             self.logger.error("Exception encountered in DatacenterSplunk.download_binary_file():" + str(e))
             self._handle_exception(e)
         self.logger.debug("Leaving DatacenterSplunk.download_binary_file() for dc " + self.datacenter)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>here is the URL and Data that I am passing,</p>
  
  <pre><code>URL : https://example-zone-ms.compnay.com:8089/services/search/jobs/export
  data= {'search': 'search source=*FOO_access* http_apikey | fields - host,source,sourcetype, splunk_server, _time, index, _serial', 'output_mode': 'csv', 'earliest': '08/22/2019:0:0:0', 'latest': '08/22/2019:23:59:59'}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works fine except, the date range issue, always I am getting last 7 days of log irrespective of the date range I entered. For this range
  earliest=08/22/2019:0:0:0 -d latest=08/23/2019:0:0:0
  I can getting from Aug 29 - Aug 22</p>