Automating Bookshare

[Dawes, Stephen]

Yes,

Have you tried lftp? You can script it as well. You call the lftp script
as follows:
lftp -f {sScriptFileName}
I use this method to get books from places that require a login when I
am wanting to download information
I can send you a sample lftp script offline if you like.
 



Steve Dawes
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Email: SDawes at calgary.ca

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Sent: 2008 February 20 1:48 PM
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I ended up trying --user=<my user id> --password=<my password>
"http://www.bookshare.org/web/DownloadPeriodical.html?publishtitleid=ari
zona_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?