From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T10:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Need advice for a script to scrap my Verizon account

Steve 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. 

I just did something similar for our electronic
time sheet -- I had to negotiate a frameset, viz,

  URL = 'https://site.somewhere.gov/'
  require 'rubygems'; require 'mechanize'
  agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
  form = agent.get("#{URL}").forms.name('loginForm').first
  form.userid   = ARGV[0] # 1st commandline argument
  form.password = ARGV[1] # 2nd      "         "
  frame = agent.submit(form).frames.name('Main').href
  form = agent.get("#{URL}/#{frame}").forms.name('timeCard').first
  form.ENTRY_24378_1_3 = '2.25' # set hours for 1st week, 3rd day
  agent.submit(form)

The next step was to use Hpricot to scrape the relations
of table inputs to time codes, but I haven't gotten there
yet...

Regards,
--
Bil Kleb
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov