Inspired by a Silicon Valley Monger's talk, I installed WWW::Mechanize and whipped up a script to log in to the Mountain View Public Library to check due dates on books. Only to find... yes, that's right, an overdue book. Oops.
The scraping task wasn't as clean as it could have been, since some l337 web designer decided to use Javascript onClick handlers for links. Grrr...
Re:Gimme that script, please!
dws on 2003-04-03T20:12:50
Blake's script, which he walked people through out the SVPM meeting, is much cleaner, but I'll tidy mine up and send it your way.Re:Gimme that script, please!
petdance on 2003-04-07T01:42:25
For anyone following along at home, here it is.
