Script Request...

[Diez B. Roggisch]

some one wrote:

> Hi all, I am not to familiar with python yet and I am wondering if
> someone can write a script that will monitor my DSL modems IP address
> and notify when it changes, its a 2Wire Advanced DSL Modem.  I need to
> know when it changes because I am trying to run my own inhouse server
> and have to update my domain records through verio.com.
> 
> The script would need to read the text of a web page( on my modem the
> address is http://192.168.0.1/xslt?PAGE=B01&THISPAGE=&NEXTPAGE=B01 ) and
> search for a string containing the IP address.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> thanks, I'll keep monitoring this thread.

Try urllib2 to fetch the data, use either string-search, regular expressions
or even BeautifulSoup to extract the data. Use a cron-job to do that on a
regular base or use module time.sleep() together with an endless loop to
monitor that location periodically.

Show us your concrete efforts, and we will suggest improvements.

Diez