Re: Feature request: command-line report of account status

[Ed <edstarsnap@hannaquist.net>]

On 2013-10-09 00:23, Jason Ryan wrote:
> On 09/10/13 at 09:17am, Philipp Riegger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm also interested in this.
> > On 09.10.2013 01:24, Colin Percival wrote:
> > > On 10/08/13 16:12, ed wrote:
> > > > I would love to have a command-line app that outputs the same 
> > > > information that I
> > > > can get from the Tarsnap Account Management Interface on the 
> > > > webpage.  Perhaps a
> > > > default output of my current account balance with options to output 
> > > > Recent
> > > > Account Activity, Recent Activity for an Individual Machine, etc.
> > > Have you tried wget? ;-)
> This does what I need (adjust if you need more)…
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> # Return tarsnap balance
> read -p "Tarsnap username: " user
> read -s -p "Tarsnap password: " pass
> wget --no-proxy --post-data="address=$user&password=$pass" --quiet \
>     -O - 'https://www.tarsnap.com/manage.cgi' |\
>     awk -F'[><]' '/balance/ {printf "\n%s\n", $3}'
> Cheers,
> /J
Thanks, Jason!  I can work with that for now.  It'll be even sweeter 
when Colin gets secondary/read-only logins set up so that I can put 
those into a script without worrying about the security implications.

-Ed


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