Question

A twiki installation exists on my office intranet.
I have been assigned a task which requires some perl scripting on the client side.
Basically, I need the perl script to automatically post some stats to a dedicated twiki page.

The perl script must do the following:

1. Login daily (automatically) to twiki as a guest user
2. Edit a twiki topic
3. Save the topic
4. Log off.

I have been using the libWWW Perl module as follows:

$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://server.office.com/twiki/bin/edit/Project/RegressionResults');
$req->authorization_basic ('username', 'pass');
print $ua->request($req)->as_string;

How do I add information and post the resulting form back to twiki using perl from the client side ?
Am I using a hopelessly wrong approach ? Is there some easier way to do this ?

I am a bit of a newbie to poth perl and twiki and am stumped! Thanks!

• TWiki version:Version: 01 Dec 2001
• Perl version: 5.8.0
• Web server & version:
• Server OS:RedHat 7.2
• Web browser & version:
• Client OS: Mandrake 9.0

-- TWikiGuest - 05 Mar 2003

Answer

IIUC, Plugins.MailToTWikiAddOn might help you started. Now you just need to write AI program to contribute content. Package it as a plugin, I'll use it for our Twiki...

-- PeterMasiar - 06 Mar 2003

The TWikiPlugins API of TWikiRelease01Feb2003 has functions to read and write topics, readTopicText() and writeTopicText() respectively. See details in TWikiFuncModule documentation. You can use that in a scrip, called updatetwiki for example.

-- PeterThoeny - 09 Mar 2003