Automatic Login and Email
Saturday 10 February 2007 - Filed under Default
There’s this website I have to login to and check on a regular basis. It happens to be for Nexicore, a company that contracts out computer service and extended hardware warranty contracts. Nobody likes to login and check a site every day when updates to it should really be push.
So I wrote a script that logs into the website using my username and password, checks to see if I have any new work orders and emails me if a new one is found. I run it automatically once per day. Simple and effective. Now I just have to check the site when I get an email.
This service would be useful to all Nexicore contractors at a minimum and as a more general case, anyone who has to regularly login to a website just to see if something changed. Furthermore, there’s no other service like this at least when I searched on it a few days ago.
If you want to get an email when something on your private website changes or if you are a Nexicore contractor, I can run this for you as a service. Just email me at davesterry at gmail . com. I would probably just charge $10 to $20 a year depending on the difficulty of parsing the website.
2007-02-10 » David Sterry
5 July 2007 @ 7:16 pm
Hey There,
I was wondering if this script would work for logging in to forums.
I am a 14yr old student, my school has this website/forum (www.virtual-workspace.com that gives you points per login per day( e.g if you logged in once you get 1 point, if u logged in 2,3,4+ you still only get 1 point)
I was wondering if I could somehow change this scirpt so it logs in to that. If it worked I could maybe add it to scheduled tasks in WinXP(Home Ed.) so it would each morning. If that wouldnt work I would just have to click it, lol!
If it is alright with you, would I be able to have your script, which if u like I could pass on to my school friends saying it came from you!
So if i can have your script email me at:
02Dclarke[at]gmail.com
Thanks In Advance,
Dave Clarke