If you're familiar with Python, using the libraries urllib2 and beautifulsoup will get you what you need. For Perl there is WWW::Mechanize -- both support SSL
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Dave Bour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > > > > > Dave Bour > Desktop Solution Center > 905.381.0077 X501 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For people who just want IT to work > > Business http://www.desktopsolutioncenter.ca > Personal http://www.davebour.com > > -- | It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what | you know for sure that just ain't so. -- Mark Twain | | The Toronto Asterisk Users Group | Join the discussion group by visiting http://taug.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
