I'm curious if anyone has done any web site scrapers to put data on the sets.  
I've got a few routines displaying some data on my Aastra sets now.  That's the 
easy part.

One I'd like to get is my Virgin Mobile prepaid account balance.  Since it's 
https, it's not as simple as passing the user/password as a variable.  A little 
more work would be required.  I could think of a dozen things like this to 
use...

Bank & Credit card balance monitoring for rapid fraud detection
Any Voip or cellular account prepaid balance - avoid those embarrassing 0 
balance call termination events

Anything where you'd like to monitor balances, etc....I see use for this.

LesNet has provided a simple URL based lookup that will do it for you:

http://les.net/api/balance.php?id_account=xxxxx&password=yyyyy

where xxxxx and yyyyy are your account/password respectively.  A simple CURL 
statement makes that data useful.

You could program your system to update the data daily or triggered on an 
activity.

I remember a couple years ago a similar discussion across the TLUG group but 
can't find it any longer.    Any ideas?




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