Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2007

The 14th day

Do you know Elza?

Elza is "a scripting language aimed at automating requests on web pages." That says it all, doesn't it? wget is good in downloading files from the web, but with elza you can automatically fill out web forms. Unfortunately the project (stoev.org) is no longer maintained but still included in the Linux distribution Debian. Here is how you can write an elza script:

#!/usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/elza
var rawfile = /dev/stdout
get url http://hotzenplotz.homelinux.org/advent/2007/?14

Note with this header you can just call your script as a command.

Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2007

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