Automating Bookshare

[Steve Holmes]

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Yeah, it is the login sequence that isn't working for me.  My last
attempt to login with a script used two itterations of wget and I
specified the wget command with the post variables for email and
password but I didn't get any real meaningful feedback to tell me if
the login was successful or not.  the second pass worked in the sense
that it requested the desired file but then I got back the error page
telling me that I was never logged in.

My ultimate goal was to have a script pull my daily newspaper from
bookshare and dump the thing onto an SD card so I could come up to my
computer in the morning and grab the card and pop it into my Victor
Reader Stream and groove on the day's news.:)  I heard people doing
that with the Icon small computer so figured there could be a way for
us to do it with shell script or something similar and yield the same
results.  In any case, it would be a fun project if I could get it to
work.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:49:46PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
> It sounds like you would have to make the script surf the web like a user 
> would, going in to the user name box, putting it in, same for password, etc, 
> but how on earth would you ever get it to do the search and pick the 
> results? It sounds as hard as making a Windows GUI file converter convert 
> every file in a directory, given you have nothing but tabbing and 
> shift-tabbing specified numbers of times and hoping you land on what you 
> need.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Automating Bookshare
> 
> 
> > Yeah but the problem with this is it still tries to use http
> > authentication, which won't work for bookshare.
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at
> > 06:10:27PM -0700, Steve Dawes wrote:
> >> Here is a sample lftp script.
> >> I have documented it for you to understand what you need to do to make it
> >> work.
> >> Lines starting with a # are the comments.
> >> To call a lftp script do the following:
> >> lftp -f SampleScript.lftp
> >>
> >> SampleScript.lftp
> >> # LFTP script to automate a file(s) transfer.
> >>
> >> # Log into the desired Web site with your userid and password.
> >> If you do not need a userid and password, remove the "-u userid,password"
> >> from the next line.
> >> open -u USERID,PASSWORD URL
> >> #UReplace USERID,PASSWORD with your login information.
> >> # URL E.G. https//your.domain.com/ (NOTE the "/" at the end of the line 
> >> is
> >> important)
> >>
> >> # Change the local directory to where you want to store the downloaded
> >> files.
> >> lcd MyDownloads
> >>
> >> # Change to the location of the files to be transferred.
> >> cd FileLocation/ # (Again the "/" is necessary)
> >>
> >> # now get the file(s)
> >> mget **.FileExtention # (change mget to get for a single file)
> >> # to get a directory, use
> >> # mirror DirectoryName/ (the "/" is not necessary)
> >>
> >> # Log out
> >> bye
> >>
> >> # End-of-script
> >>
> >> If you have any questions, let me know.
> >> HTH
> >>
> >> Steve Dawes
> >> Calgary Canada.
> >>
> >>
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> > -- 
> >> > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I
> >> > should use Linux over BSD?
> >>
> >> No.  That's it.  The cool name, that is.  We worked very hard on
> >> creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
> >> certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able
> >> to say "OS/2? Hah.  I've got Linux.  What a cool name".  386BSD made the
> >> mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the
> >> name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too
> >> technical.
> > -- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux
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