From: Justin Bailey <jgbailey@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T06:55:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Need advice for a script to scrap my Verizon account

On 5/4/07, Steve <zflyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to Ruby.  I would like to write a script that will login to
> my Verizon account and grab my minute details and calculate my
> remaining unused minutes for the month.  This would involve opening an
> HTTPS connection, then scraping and calculating the results.  I have

I haven't used it myself, but if you might want to look at
WWW::Mechanize, which handles things like cookies for you. I found a
good looking blog post about it here:

http://neurogami.com/cafe-fetcher/

Another excellent library is open-uri, which comes standard with Ruby.
If Verizon does not have complex cookie requirements, you might be
able to handle the details yourself and use open-uri.

Good luck!

Justin