Virgin Broadband - Usage meter in PERL · Nov 12, 19:56 by Shannon Wynter

Greetings folks..

While this isn’t a complete usage meter (as the title leads one to believe) it is a huge step in the right direction.

Basically reading the code below should make it fairly easy to understand the procedure for gathering information from Virgin Mobile’s usage system.

If I get time I’ll port it to javascript and pascal (for Delphi) – in the mean time I’m sure someone can use it…

1. #!/usr/bin/perl -w  
2.   
3. use LWP;  
4. use XML::Simple;  
5. use Data::Dumper;  
6. use strict;  
7.   
8. # Configuration - Specify your username and password here  
9. my $USERNAME = 'yourusername';  
10. my $PASSWORD = 'yourpassword';  
11.   
12. my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new;  
13.   
14. # Not sure if it works without cookies, wasn't going to try  
15. $agent->cookie_jar({});  
16.   
17. # Authenticate  
18. my $xmlAuth = doPost( 'auth', [  
19. action   => 'authenticate',  
20. password => $PASSWORD,  
21. username => $USERNAME  
22. ] );  
23.   
24. die "Authentication Failure\n" if ($xmlAuth->{authenticated} != 1);  
25.   
26. print "Authenticated as: ", $xmlAuth->{username}[1], "\n";  
27.   
28. # Get the customer ID (I don't know why we jump through so many hoops, but hey)  
29. my $xmlCustID = doPost( 'service', [  
30. action   => 'get_customer_id',  
31. username => $xmlAuth->{username}[1]  
32. ] );  
33.   
34. die $xmlCustID->{error}, "\n" if ($xmlCustID->{error});  
35.   
36. print "Customer ID: ", $xmlCustID->{customer_id}, "\n";  
37.   
38. # Now get the list of services, this returns all services including email addresses.  
39. my $xmlServices = doPost( 'service', [  
40. action      => 'get_services',  
41. customer_id => $xmlCustID->{customer_id}  
42. ] );  
43.   
44. print Dumper($xmlServices);  
45.   
46. # Shortcut post method, saves code (c:  
47. sub doPost {  
48. my $page = shift;  
49. my $data = shift;  
50.   
51. my $response = $agent->post(  
52.   'http://mybroadbandusage.virginbroadband.com.au/cgi-bin/ajax/'.$page.'.cgi', $data  
53. );  
54.   
55. die "HTTP Error: ", $response->status_line unless $response->is_success;  
56.   
57. return XMLin $response->content;  
58. }
59. Download this code: virgin_usage.pl (Downloaded 42 time(s))

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