<p>I would like to make a nightly cron job that fetches my stackoverflow page and diffs it from the previous day's page, so I can see a change summary of my questions, answers, ranking, etc.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I couldn't get the right set of cookies, etc, to make this work.  Any ideas?</p>

<p>Also, when the beta is finished, will my status page be accessible without logging in?</p>

[{'answer_id': 2818, 'author': 'sparkes', 'author_id': 269, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/269', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Nice idea :)</p>\n\n<p>I presume you've used wget's</p>\n\n<pre><code>--load-cookies (filename)\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>might help a little but it might be easier to use something like Mechanize (in Perl or python) to mimic a browser more fully to get a good spider.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 2819, 'author': 'Grant', 'author_id': 30, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/30', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Your status page is available now without logging in (click <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/logout?returnurl=%2fquestions%2f2815%2fhow-to-curl-or-wget-a-stackoverflow-page">logout</a> and try it). When the beta-cookie is disabled, there will be nothing between you and your status page.</p>\n\n<p>For wget:</p>\n\n<pre><code>wget --no-cookies --header "Cookie: soba=(LookItUpYourself)" https://stackoverflow.com/users/30/myProfile.html\n</code></pre>\n'}, {'answer_id': 2822, 'author': 'Ryan Ahearn', 'author_id': 75, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I couldn't figure out how to get the cookies to work either, but I was able to get to my status page in my browser while I was logged out, so I assume this will work once stackoverflow goes public.</p>\n\n<p>This is an interesting idea, but won't you also pick up diffs of the underlying html code?  Do you have a strategy to avoid ending up with a diff of the html and not the actual content?</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 2878, 'author': 'Mark Harrison', 'author_id': 116, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/116', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>And here's what works...</p>\n\n<pre><code>curl -s --cookie soba=. http://stackoverflow.com/users\n</code></pre>\n"}, {'answer_id': 2920, 'author': 'Grant', 'author_id': 30, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/30', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>From <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2815/#2878">Mark Harrison</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And here\'s what works...</p>\n<p>curl -s --cookie soba=. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users">https://stackoverflow.com/users</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>And for wget:</p>\n<pre><code>wget --no-cookies --header &quot;Cookie: soba=(LookItUpYourself)&quot; https://stackoverflow.com/users/30/myProfile.html\n</code></pre>\n'}]
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