turns out that virgin mobile doesn't use https...silly of me to assume...that said, javascript causing a "fail to login" using a wget routine when the same url works in IE (for once, IE does something expected). So now...back to perl or something that reads javascript and doesn't get snagged. D.
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 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon > P. Ditner > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 9:35 AM > To: Dave Bour > Cc: TAUG Asterisk Mailing List > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Web Scraper Routines > > 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]
