[Chicago-talk] yahoo business login

matt boex chimcentral at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 7 07:39:00 PDT 2005


jens,

what would i wrap expect around?

matt
--- Jens Porup <jens at porup.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:02:25PM -0700, matt boex
> wrote:
> > don't really know where to start here.  i am
> trying to
> > log in to my yahoo account and pull some real time
> > stock quotes off my watch list  i am aiming to do
> this
> > only once, about 1/2 hour before the close.  i
> want to
> > parse my list of quotes and send myself an email,
> etc.
> >  i am having issues logging in to my account, and
> > pulling the data.  once i get it, i will have no
> > problem doing all the other stuff.  i have done a
> > google search and come up pretty empty.  i do know
> > about the Finance::Quote module, but those quotes
> are
> > delayed.  i also want to just pull one page (which
> > holds my personal watch list).  
> > 
> > any pointers?  anyone done this before (with
> yahoo)?
> 
> Maybe try the Expect module (a perl
> re-implementation of Expect.)
> Good for true automation of systems that *really*
> want a real user.
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
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