Getting app run id for a Spark job

Question

I\'d like, from where I run a Spark job, to get the unique id of that job.

Via the Spark master node website, I can see that id. It\'s something like:

Answer 1

For those using pyspark, see this nearly identical question: How to extract application ID from the PySpark context

The answer from @vvladymyrov worked for me running pyspark in yarn-client mode.

>>> sc._jsc.sc().applicationId()
u'application_1433865536131_34483'