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icon5.gif   How to login and export to CSV using wget?, posted by Alan Grant on Sun Apr 24 02:09:47 2016 
    icon2.gif   Re: How to login and export to CSV using wget?, posted by Alan Grant on Sun Apr 24 06:49:33 2016 
Message ID: 68303     Entry time: Sun Apr 24 06:49:33 2016     In reply to: 68302
Icon: Reply  Author: Alan Grant  Author Email: agrant@winnipeg.ca 
Category: Question  OS: Windows  ELOG Version: 3.1.1 
Subject: Re: How to login and export to CSV using wget? 

UPDATE:

After days of head banging and trying different syntax combinations, I finally stumbled on my own answer. It involved some syntax adjustments, and then splitting the task into these two consecutive operations:

      1. wget --no-check-certificate --cookies=on --save-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies -O e:\export1.csv "http://localhost:8080/demo/?uname=agrant&upassword=skipper"

      2. wget --no-check-certificate --cookies=on --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies -O e:\export2.csv http://localhost:8080/demo/?mode=CSV1

All is working fine now.

Alan Grant wrote:

Is it possible to use wget to log into elog and export all of a logbook's data into a CSV file?

I can accomplish this perfectly when authentication IS NOT required by using:  wget --no-check-certificate -O e:\export.csv http://localhost:8080/demo/?mode=CSV1

However, I cannot accomplish it when authentication IS required by using:  wget --no-check-certificate -O e:\export.csv "http://localhost:8080/demo/?mode=CSV1&uname=agrant&upassword=skipper"

The latter appears to show that I've logged in, but the export file only contains a bunch of HTML tags, not the actual data as in the former.

How should I construct the wget command?

 

 

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