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Dell Warranty Info

I hate navigating the Dell website. It's inconsistent and messy and noisy, and all I generally want is a single date (when the warranty expires or expired on a given box). So I wrote this. It scrapes the Dell website, and returns the warranty info for the service tag it's been passed.
I've CGI'd it here.

  1. #! /usr/bin/perl
  2.  
  3. use strict;
  4. use warnings;
  5.  
  6. die "$0\n\tGet warranty info from dell.\nUsage\n$0 [SERVICE TAG]\n" if !$ARGV[0];
  7.  
  8. my $service_tag = $ARGV[0];
  9.  
  10. use LWP::Simple;
  11. use HTML::TableExtract; # Is in the CPAN, and exists in the debian repositories as libhtml-tableextract-perl
  12.  
  13. ## Make a URL:
  14. my $url_base = "http://support.euro.dell.com/support/topics/topic.aspx/emea/shared/support/my_systems_info/en/details";
  15. my $url_params = "?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=gen";
  16. my $url = $url_base.$url_params."&servicetag=".$service_tag;
  17. my $content = get($url);
  18.  
  19. # Tell HTML::TableExtract to pick out the table(s) whose class is 'contract_table':
  20. my $table = HTML::TableExtract->new( attribs => { class => "contract_table" } );
  21. $table->parse($content);
  22.  
  23. ## Gimme infos!
  24. foreach my $ts ($table->tables) {
  25. 	foreach my $row ($ts->rows) {
  26. 		print "", join("\t", @$row), "\n";
  27. 	}
  28. }