Dear Team,
Wallstreet-online is a financial portal, well known in Germany. I have registered as a free user and created a portfolio. Now I would like to read out the portfolio page (accessible via a specific url) with Rainmenter using a WebParser measure. I read the docs and I know WebParser only works with HTTP AUTH. There's no information on the site if this is supported, I simply tested it with my correct username/password (urlencoded):
URL=https://USERNANE:PASSWORD@www.wallstreet-online.de/portfolio
It returns the front page in WebParserDump.txt but I'm not logged in - just the regular homepage is returned. So obviously, HTTP AUTH is not supported, which is also not surprising since it's rather old technology. When using my browser I just need to login once and then it just works for already more than 1 month without re-login (in the browser). Probably it's a session cookie saving the login credentials, but I don't know for sure.
Now the obvious question: Does anybody know a "cheap trick" to access this website logged-in via Rainmeter in order to RegEX and display selected portfolio data in a skin/meter? Thanks for suggestions!
It must be possible with Rainmeter the swiss knife for all custom skinning jobs (my last words?)![;-)]( "Wink")
PS: Yes, I already know the My Portfolio skin, but it polls financial market prices from cnbc.com - I don't want to poll 15 separate stocks from this site and therefore would like to use wallstreet-online which does the portfolio calculation under the hood so that I just need to poll 1 page with the full data I need...
Wallstreet-online is a financial portal, well known in Germany. I have registered as a free user and created a portfolio. Now I would like to read out the portfolio page (accessible via a specific url) with Rainmenter using a WebParser measure. I read the docs and I know WebParser only works with HTTP AUTH. There's no information on the site if this is supported, I simply tested it with my correct username/password (urlencoded):
URL=https://USERNANE:PASSWORD@www.wallstreet-online.de/portfolio
It returns the front page in WebParserDump.txt but I'm not logged in - just the regular homepage is returned. So obviously, HTTP AUTH is not supported, which is also not surprising since it's rather old technology. When using my browser I just need to login once and then it just works for already more than 1 month without re-login (in the browser). Probably it's a session cookie saving the login credentials, but I don't know for sure.
Now the obvious question: Does anybody know a "cheap trick" to access this website logged-in via Rainmeter in order to RegEX and display selected portfolio data in a skin/meter? Thanks for suggestions!
It must be possible with Rainmeter the swiss knife for all custom skinning jobs (my last words?)
PS: Yes, I already know the My Portfolio skin, but it polls financial market prices from cnbc.com - I don't want to poll 15 separate stocks from this site and therefore would like to use wallstreet-online which does the portfolio calculation under the hood so that I just need to poll 1 page with the full data I need...
Statistics: Posted by emp00 — January 27th, 2024, 9:55 pm — Replies 8 — Views 248