Hi Robert, > Then after a short while (maybe another cronjob 5 mins later wget to > download http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/export.php?type=csv from > the same IP address FF is running from to get your data.
Ah, I assumed that it was the cookies Firefox was storing that would identify whose data to export as CSV, rather than IP address, but I must admit I didn't check. :-) > 0 */6 * * * firefox http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/speedtest > 10 */6 * * * killall -u speedtest firefox > 15 */6 * * * lynx --source > http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/export.php?type=csv > speed.csv > > The killall just makes sure FF does not end up eating a metric > sh**tonne of RAM and I use lynx to do the downloading as its silent > (as opposed to wget). `wget -q' is silent. And -O specifies an output file, or stdout for `-', so `wget -qO-' is similar to `lynx --source'. Just pointing it out as wget tends to be installed in more places than lynx. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
