#--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* #-- FILE: #-- getYMail2.txt #-- DESCRIPTION: #-- This script logs onto a particular Yahoo! Mail #-- account and extracts the summarised list of mail #-- (called the 'inbox') #-- #-- A description of the process of the script is as #-- follows: #-- 1) Get the Yahoo! Mail Login Form from http://mail.yahoo.com #-- 2) Put the user account information into the form #-- (user-name & password) #-- 3) Reformat the 'input' fields in the form so that #-- they can be used by the curl -d switch #-- (i.e. strip html tags, url encode fields, remove #-- newline characters etc) #-- 4) Post (submit) this information to the Form's target #-- and save any cookies and headers which the server #-- sends. Also follow any redirects which the server #-- specifies. #-- 5) Get the final Yahoo! Mail home-page location by looking at #-- the final redirection instruction sent by the server #-- 6) Get the Yahoo! Mail home-page hostname. #-- 7) Get the url of the Yahoo! Mail 'Inbox' from the mail #-- home-page html. #-- 8) Go to the Yahoo! Mail Inbox. FINISHED #-- #-- #-- NOTES: #-- #-- The script needs to overcome several devices used #-- by yahoo. #-- a) The use of cookies #-- b) The use of automatic redirects of the web-client #-- (using the LOCATION http header field) #-- c) The use of ssl to encrypt the logon process #-- d) The use of hidden fields with random numbers within #-- the Yahoo! Mail Log-in Form to discourage automatic logins #-- #-- These things can all be overcome because of the #-- capabilities of the 'curl' non-interactive web client. #-- #-- This script has only been used within the 'cygwin' #-- unix emulating bash shell running on WinMe. #-- #-- NOTE TO YAHOO ENGINEERS: #-- This script was not written out of malicious-ness #-- towards yahoo but because I am not able to get #-- a credit card since I dont have a job currently #-- and therefor I am not able to pay for a 'premium' #-- package which includes pop forwarding of mail. #-- #-- DATE: #-- may 02 #-- AUTHOR: mj bishop (matth3wbishop@yahoo.com) #-- #--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* sTargetUrl="" #-- The initial target of the login form sYahooMailHomeUrl="" #-- The final url of the Yahoo! Mail home page sYahooMailHostName="" #-- Just the host-name of the above. #-- Extract the form fields from the html #-- echo '' > mailForm.html #-- A user progress message #-- echo " -------------------------------------------------- Extracting the HTML login form from the Yahoo! Mail site [http://mail.yahoo.com] a) Putting account (user-name & password) into the login form b) Retrieving the target url of the login form c) -------------------------------------------------- " curl mail.yahoo.com | sed -n '/

/p' \ | grep -P '()' > t001.txt #-- #-- Place the particular account details (user-name & password) #-- within the Yahoo! Mail login form #-- sed '/name="login"/s/value=""/value="matth3wbishop"/g' t001.txt > t000.txt sed '/name="passwd"/s/type="password"/& value="bacibaci"/g' t000.txt >> mailForm.html echo '' >> mailForm.html sTargetUrl=$(sed -n '/ formData.txt #-- #-- echo " -------------------------------------------------- Submitting (post method) the Yahoo! Mail Login form -- Saving cookies and other header into 'headers.txt' -- Automatically following any redirects -------------------------------------------------- " curl -D headers.txt -d @formData.txt -L $sTargetUrl > ymail.html sYahooMailHomeUrl=$(sed -n '/Location:/s/Location: *//p' headers.txt) echo "sYahooMailHomeUrl = $sYahooMailHomeUrl" sYahooMailHostName=$(echo $sYahooMailHomeUrl | sed 's/\.com\/.*/\.com/g') echo "sYahooMailHostName = $sYahooMailHostName" sInboxUrl=$( grep -i 'check mail' ymail.html | sed 's/.*href="$[^"]*$".*/\1/g') echo "sInboxUrl = $sInboxUrl" #-- #-- Go to the Yahoo! Mail Inbox #-- echo " -------------------------------------------------- Following the link to the Yahoo! Mail inbox using previously set cookies -------------------------------------------------- " curl -b headers.txt ${sYahooMailHostName}${sInboxUrl} > ymail.html # links -dump ymail.html | tr -s ' ' | less #-- It is not working to manually redirect as the lines below #-- attempt to do. Maybe have to redirect twice. # sYahooMailHomeUrl=$(sed -n '/Location:/s/Location: *//gp' headers.txt) # echo "sYahooMailHomeUrl = $sYahooMailHomeUrl" # curl -i -b headers.txt -d @formData.txt $sYahooMailHomeUrl | less # --------------------------------------------- # 511 (echo ''; curl mail.yahoo.com | sed -n '//p' | grep -P '()' | sed -e '/name="login"/s/value=""/value="matth3wbishop"/g' -e '/name="passwd"/s/type="password"/& value="bacibaci"/g'; echo '') > mailForm.html # 543 cat mailForm.html | grep '> getYMail.txt # 580 curl -D - -d @qsy.txt -L https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?90ep5ie0i4i3q | less # 581 history 2 >> getYMail.txt