Automating Bookshare

[Steve Holmes]

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I ended up trying --user=<my user id> --password=<my password>
"http://www.bookshare.org/web/DownloadPeriodical.html?publishtitleid=arizona_republic&date=1203494400&format=1"
But I still only got an HTML file stating that I'm not logged in.  I
think the command line parms for user and password only work with relm
based authentication.  I don't think bookshare is using relm based
authentication, given that they have an actual login panel and a
logout option.  Relm based authentication passes the user-id and
password with every http request.  So I somehow need to walk through
the login sequence with wget and then request the link to the
newspaper I want.  Does this make more sense?

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:04:17AM -0700, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> Yes, wget has a user,password option. 
> Don't quote me on it, but I think it is -u userid,passwd.
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> I'm thinking of setting up an automated script to use wget to pull the
> latest newspaper from Bookshare; kind of like what is done on the Icon
> device.  I casn save the appropriate link for my particular newspaper
> and use variables to plug the desired date but where I run into trouble
> is authentication.  Since you have to log into bookshare first, it ends
> up being a multi-step process.  Is there any way to do this  using wget?
> 
> See, I'm trying to implement a feature of the Icon without paying $2000
> plus for it:).
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