From: Rodrigo Bermejo <rodrigo.bermejo@...>
Date: 2009-08-27T21:39:10+09:00
Subject: Re: automating online banking login & checking for new transactions -  what's best approach? (e.g. w

Ryan Davis wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 23:41 , Greg Hauptmann wrote:
> 
>> I'm in Australia & also my bank don't support notifications (hence  
>> why I
>> want to knock something together for myself).
>>
>> It seems Mechanize might be best?  (i.e. I'm looking for one I can  
>> deploy to
>> a linux server, hence I don't want it based on having to have a  
>> browser
>> instance running separately).  Is there anything to look at beyond
>> Mechanize?
> 
> as long as you don't have to interact with javascript, mechanize is
> your best bet.

If you are on a Linux system, try lynx ..
you can create a lynx macro ..
dump the html stuff to a file
parse the file
send email if something changed `mailx <$yourfile`

And sure all this can be done too with ruby.
reuse as much as you can ;)
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