Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to use lynx --dump to keep an eye on updates for a website.

The site needs a username and password and I can't find a way to log in using lynx --dump

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance!

I'd try wget instead of lynx. You can script it; use it to automatically post data to the login URL and save cookies(including session cookies, which otherwise expire in negative time somehow), then re-load cookies and download another URL.

Thanks for you reply but how do I do that?

I tried

Code:

wget --user=**** --password=**** "http.www.site.com/"

to no avail

Also there is a --post-data option for lynx that I can't seem to understand

Like I said there's probably a form you need to post the username and password to. The --user and --pass options are for basic and digest authentication, not form-based things.

I wouldn't use lynx. It's a web browser. Besides this may be a two page operation, post data to one page, save cookies, load another page with the given cookies...

You'll need to inspect the source of the webpage to see what page to submit what data to, and the manpage of wget to see how to save and load cookies. For more detail I'd need to pick apart the source of the webpage myself.

Thanks for your help. Once I've found the form in the source I won't know what to do with it. The webpage is torrentday.com

That site is down.

As for what to do with it, well, fields in the form correspond to fields in the POST data, and 'action' is the URL the data needs to be sent to... something like "--post-data=username=ABCD&password=qwertyuiop"

It's only been down for 5 - 10 mins

Sod's Law I guess




EDIT:

Code:

wget --post-data=username=*****password=***** "http://www.torrentday.com/takelogin.php"

Ok, I tried the above but am not sure of the exact location of takelogin.php. Any ideas?