Personal Nodelet Restorer

[$code or die]

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Description:

This script does the reverse of jeffa's Personal Nodelet Extractor. It is also, mainly his code - so don't bother upvoting this node.

I have needed to re-input all my personal nodelets twice in the last week because I have updated my sig. See this message for more info. This will save me a good 20 minutes next time I have to do it! I need to do some nodelet housekeeping when I have time.

Update: Nov 15 2001 Added modifypn=>'on' to the POST. Also modify and uncomment the line with $ua->proxy if you need it. Thanks ybiC!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Code adapted from http://perlmonks.com/?node=Personal%20Nodelet%20Ext
+ractor

use strict;

use LWP;
use Getopt::Std;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

$|++;
 
use vars qw(%opts);
getopts('p:u:n:h',\%opts);

my ($user,$passwd,$nodeletfile) = ($opts{u},$opts{p},$opts{n});
USAGE() and exit unless $user and $passwd and $nodeletfile and not $op
+ts{h};

my @nodelets;
open NODELET, $nodeletfile or die "can't open nodelet file: $nodeletfi
+le $!";
while (<NODELET>)
{
    next unless my ($nodelet) = /^\s*(\d+)/;
    push @nodelets, $nodelet;
}

use constant URL => 'http://www.perlmonks.org/';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent('personal_nodlet_restorer/1.0 (' . $ua->agent .')');

#$ua->proxy('http', 'http://myproxy:8080');

# log in and access your User Setting page in raw format
my $request = POST(URL,
    Content => [
        op          => 'login',
        user        => $user,
        passwd      => $passwd,
        node_id     => 1072,
        displaytype => 'raw',
        addtopn        => \@nodelets,
        modifypn    => 'on',
    ] 
);

my $response = $ua->request($request);
die $response->message unless $response->is_success;

print "All done. Please double check by logging into PerlMonks with yo
+ur browser";

sub USAGE {
    print "USAGE: $0 -u user -p -password -n nodelet_filename\n";
}

=pod

=head1 NAME

restore_personal_nodelet.pl - LWP script

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Reverses the action of Jeffa's Personal Nodelet Extractor. Given a fil
+ename
that contains a list of node_ids, it will log in and add then all to y
+our
personal nodelet.

The majority of this code was shamelessly stolen from Jeffa's Personal
Nodelet Extractor:

http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node=Personal%20Nodelet%20Extractor

=head1 SYNOPSIS

for *nix:
./restore_personal_nodelet.pl C<-u> uname C<-p> passwd C<-n> filename 

for win32:
perl restore_personal_nodelet.pl C<-u> uname C<-p> passwd C<-n> filena
+me

Invokes the script for the specified username and password. The conten
+ts on the
input file would look something like this:

    24270    Permutations and combinations
    25730    Life in the land of OOP, and I'm confused.
    17890    shift, Pop, Unshift and Push with Impunity!
    32005    Apache::MP3
    34786    Why I like functional programming

It doesn't need a default record seperator - it's collecting all numbe
+rs
so a \d+ is sufficient.

=cut