Here is my Perl-script to monitor my own progress: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::TableExtract;
use DateTime;

die "usage:  perl $0 monk password seconds\n" unless $#ARGV == 2;
my ( $monk, $pass, $secs ) = @ARGV;
print "Querying the monastery once every $secs seconds for monk $monk\
+'s reputation.\n";
$secs = 10 if $secs < 10;

while(1) {
  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  $ua->agent("PMReputation");
  
  my $res = $ua->post( 'http://perlmonks.org/?',  
                       {"node_id"     => "3559",
                        "op"          => "login",
                        "lastnode_id" => "3559",
                        "user"        => $monk,
                        "passwd"      => $pass,
                        "expires"     => "+10y",
                        "length"      => "500",}
                     );
  die "Cannot enter the monastery ($res->status_line).\n" unless $res-
+>is_success;
  
  my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( headers => [ '#', 'User', 'Experie
+nce', 'Level', 'Writeups', 'User Since', 'Last Here' ] );
  $te->parse( $res->content );
  my $writeups = 0;
  my $exp = 0;
  my $level = "";
  my $rank = 0;
  my $total = 0;
  foreach my $ts ($te->tables) {
    foreach my $row ($ts->rows) {
      $total = $row->[0];
      if( $row->[1] eq $monk ) {
        ($rank, $exp, $level, $writeups) = @$row[0,2,3,4];
      }
    }
  }
  
  my $now = DateTime->now( time_zone => 'Europe/Berlin' );
  my $text = $now->dmy.",".$now->hms.": $level $monk has experience of
+ $exp and $writeups write ups, Saint $rank/$total.\n";
  print $text;
  if( open my $log, ">>", "narcissistic.txt" ) {
    print $log $text;
    close $log;
  }

  sleep( $secs-3 );
}

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In reply to Re: Querying Saints in our Book by hdb
in thread Querying Saints in our Book by chacham

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