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RSS feed to max stable rate page?

gyre
Grafter
Posts: 271
Registered: ‎19-11-2007

RSS feed to max stable rate page?

I'd like to monitor the max stable rate for my plusnet account, and get growl warnings when the rate has changed.
Is there a way to get a RSS feed for a given user and password to the information given on the page:
https://portal.plus.net/my.html?action=stable_rate
?
Thanks!
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zubel
Community Veteran
Posts: 3,793
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Registered: ‎08-06-2007

Re: RSS feed to max stable rate page?

The RSS protocol doesn't support authentication, but I suspect you could throw a script together to scrape the information.
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gyre
Grafter
Posts: 271
Registered: ‎19-11-2007

Re: RSS feed to max stable rate page?

I was wondering if the my.html script would take extra parameters like username and password perhaps.  That way I could give it to a script which converts web pages to RSS.
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WWWombat
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Registered: ‎29-01-2009

Re: RSS feed to max stable rate page?

I used the "cacti" package to monitor a number of machines & services, including my router and ISP data. This uses rrdtool to create graphs of the monitored data.
For this, I wrote a Perl script that extracts this data from the PN website. This uses the LWP UserAgent, and requires the username + password to be able to connect.
So I get it graphed, but I haven't bolted anything in that lets me know if something bad has happened.
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gyre
Grafter
Posts: 271
Registered: ‎19-11-2007

Re: RSS feed to max stable rate page?

OK, good info.  thx.