I needed to upload information to multiple guilds with different passwords. (I'm the "IT guy" in more than one guild.) UniUploader only has provision for one password. So I came up with this simple Windows batch file:

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set roster_url=http://www.myguildserver.com/roster/update.php
set guildpw=myguildpassword
set wow_account=mywowaccount
set wow_path="c:\program files\world of warcraft"
gzip --stdout %wow_path%\wtf\Account\%wow_account%\SavedVariables\CharacterProfiler.lua > %temp%\CharacterProfiler.lua.gz
curl -F CharacterProfiler=@%temp%\CharacterProfiler.lua.gz -F password=%guildpw% -F submit=Upload %roster_url%

You can copy and paste the curl command line to upload to more than one guild server, each with its own password. Or leave the password blank if you're not authorized to update the member list.

Enhancements welcome.

cURL binaries can be downloaded here:

http://curl.haxx.se/

gzip binaries (for faster uploads) can be found here:

http://www.gzip.org/

Curl Rocks!

I have made a zip package that contains the CharacterProfiler game addon, curl.exe, and a batch file that guildmates can use to launch the game or put in their Scheduled Tasks for automatic "Set it and Forget it" uploading.

It's very simple for me to maintain, and is very simple for my guild to use.

I host, administer, implement, fix, break, etc. all web resources for the guild - for 2+ years now. vBulletin, various vB mods and plugins, WoWRoster, etc.

It's been fun - the hardest part is getting people to upload their characters to the roster. Curl has really been the best for that.

If you also use Allakhazam's WoWReader to upload profiles and other collected data to Allakhazam, you can add this to your cURL upload script.

wr2-upload.cmd

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set wow_account=xxxxxx
set wow_path="c:/games/wow"
set wr2_login_url=http://wow.allakhazam.com/cgi-bin/user.pl
set wr2_upload_url=http://wow.allakhazam.com/cluster/uplua.pl
set wr2_user=yyyyyy
set wr2_password=zzzzzz
curl -c %temp%/allahcookies.txt -d "un=%wr2_user%&x=m&pw=%wr2_password%&pt=1" %wr2_login_url%
curl -b %temp%/allahcookies.txt -F sv=@%wow_path%/wtf/Account/%wow_account%/SavedVariables/Wr2.lua -F submit=Upload %wr2_upload_url%

Replace xxxxxx, yyyyyy, and zzzzzz with your own account data, and change the wow_path variable to match where you installed the game.

I've been a paid subscriber to AK since EQ1 but never uploaded to it.

I will now though, thanks Monkey!

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hm don't seem to work for me

power-mac-g5:Desktop user$ ./cp-update.sh

-=[ Do 27 Dez 2007 16:37:01 CET

-=[ Compressing character information...

  done.

-=[ Uploading character information to http://scanningsdone.de/wow/index.php?p=update...

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 66021    0 21016  100 45005  17321  37093  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 38172

  response received from server.

-=[ Results...


power-mac-g5:Desktop user$

Then I have reloaded the page (empty cache also). but no info about an update :/

hm I guess I know the reason for it.... no password is given!

how do I implement it in the code, plz?

Hummm.

No-one but you can answer that question.

Start with showing your script
Really, it helps when one excopses a max of details before asking questions.

For starters : I'm one of those that doesn't use a Mac (I'm not saying that I'm happy about ^^ - I love Mac's)

What I know, is that Unix (the base latest Mac OS's) can do stuff that still has to be invented - Vista, for example, includes a command line interface that starts to look like sh. Remember, we are in 2007

What I tend to say, is that the dos/windows batch code (look at the first post) and you Unix-Mac-Os shell script are globally the the same thing.

So, you'll have to put in 'somewhere' the passsword on the command that actually sends your compressed CP.lua file to the server. It's as easy as that.

Grab a copy of the source of UniUpLoader to see how they did it.

tuigii wrote:What I know, is that Unix (the base latest Mac OS's) can do stuff that still has to be invented - Vista, for example, includes a command line interface that starts to look like sh. Remember, we are in 2007

Windows does have a fancy scripting language, but it's not a shell. Few but administrators know about it.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/script ... fault.mspx

Or you can download Perl for free and script in that.

http://activestate.com/Products/activeperl/

Powershell can compete with sh in my opinion. It's got weak points compared to sh, but it has strong points as well. The main problem with it is that it is not shipped with the OS, so you can't count on it to always be available.

Oh, and powershell most definitely is a shell.