I need to grab some data from a remote web server that offers a csv download but only after viewing a chart where you have to first navigate to a form and make some selections. Are there any good tools for automating this kind of access? (What I'm really after are bandwidth stats from some routers where I only have read access to a CA/ehealth system that monitors it). Previously the intermediate system was cacti where the link to the data download for a time interval can be computed directly.
Am 11.11.2010 um 19:22 schrieb Les Mikesell:
I need to grab some data from a remote web server that offers a csv download but only after viewing a chart where you have to first navigate to a form and make some selections. Are there any good tools for automating this kind of access?
Good is maybe an exaggeration, but there is the p5-www-Mechanize series. But Ruby can be used, too.
Haven't done much with this, though. Usually, people on the nagios-mailinglists are more deep into this...
Rainer
On 11/11/2010 12:51 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Am 11.11.2010 um 19:22 schrieb Les Mikesell:
I need to grab some data from a remote web server that offers a csv download but only after viewing a chart where you have to first navigate to a form and make some selections. Are there any good tools for automating this kind of access?
Good is maybe an exaggeration, but there is the p5-www-Mechanize series. But Ruby can be used, too.
Haven't done much with this, though. Usually, people on the nagios-mailinglists are more deep into this...
Thanks - using the perl HTTP::Recorder along with HTTP::Proxy modules to record a session and generate the script for WWW::Mechanize looked really promising but didn't quite work out because it couldn't handle the Javascript on the page with an intermediate form.
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