Automating Bookshare

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:09:30AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Other than that, you 
> would have to get a keyboard macro package (is there such a thing for 
> linux?) and set it up to log in with Lynx, tab to the submit button 
> after entering email address and password, press the letter "g" to go to 
> a url, enter the url of the newspaper you want and tell it to save to 
> disk.

Expect may do this, though the only thing I ever used it for was to
run the weather script that telneted to wunderground.com, so I don't
know if it's powerful/extensible enough to do this.

> You could also bookmark the periodicals page, press the letter 
> "v" to view bookmarks, go to the end, hit enter on the periodicals 
> bookmark, search for "DAISY" and download that way.  The advantage is 
> that you wouldn't have to calculate the correct url every time.  Then 
> just set up something in your crontab to run the script every day and 
> all should be well.

The disadvantage, at least the obvious one anyway, is that you
couldn't add anymore bookmarks, unless you were to first delete the
bookshare bookmark, add a new one, and then add the bookshare bookmark
again, thus having it always as the last bookmark.

Greg


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