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Script/Program to log into a website and report back

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  • 31-05-2016 7:04pm
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    kgpixels
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭


    Hello,

    Hopefully I'm posting in the correct thread here.

    I want to create a little program or script to log into multiple Three internet accounts and report back how much data I have left and when my credit expires etc.
    I have some web design experience so just some direction to get me started might be enough. Also if I could be able to setup automated emails when my data allowance gets low etc that would be great.

    Any help or direction much appreciated.

    https://my3account.three.ie/


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    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    What languages do you know?

    If Java, take a look at jSoup which can parse a HTML file returned from a server.

    It's pretty easy to use once you get the hang of how it parses the DOM. Use Firebug to figure out how the site's page is structured.

    Google something like "jSoup login" to get started on how to log in programmatically.


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    kgpixels
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭kgpixels


    I don't know any languages. Just gave some web design experience is all.

    I've been trying to do this in excel using macros and web query's, but its tough going!

    Thanks for the suggestions. . .


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    Cork981
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Cork981


    kgpixels wrote: »
    I don't know any languages. Just gave some web design experience is all.

    I've been trying to do this in excel using macros and web query's, but its tough going!

    Thanks for the suggestions. . .

    Hi,

    You should take a look at selenium.

    Very good tool for browser automation.

    http://www.seleniumhq.org


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    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    I don't see any available Developer API. Would you not consider learning Python or Java?


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    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    If you are scraping you should consider Morph.io which was the original scraperwiki I believe. It will run you're program for you, and it supports Nodejs, I'm guessing you have some JavaScript exposure. Even if you don't use it google it and read some of the articles about it - they'll help you get to where you need to be.


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    PrzemoF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    Did you check if the door are open? ;-)

    http://serverfault.com/questions/698147/using-curl-with-cookies

    Important: "on a side note the Chrome web developer toolkit network tab has an automatic save web request as curl command option."

    I don't use three or Chrome, so I didn't test it.


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    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    I have an android app here that will log-in and parse the pages for 3 Prepay users. You can steal the java code from here if you like.


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