Thanks Diez, I found some docs and examples on urllib2. Now how do i
search the string I get from urllib2, lets say I put it in "myURL", How
do I search for only Numbers and ".'s" in the "#.#.#.#" pattern. That
is all I am interested in with all the data retrieved. Just the IP
Address from amongst a bunch of data that I have no use of currently.
I would I write a pattern matching function to extract only the IP
address from "myURL"?
In article <64*************@mid.uni-berlin.de>,
de***@nospam.web.de
says...
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
