file uploading?

[Stoltenborg]

I need to upload a file to 3 different websites at once. It's a single CSV file that needs to be uploaded to several different inventory sites (ticketsnow.com, stubhub.com, etc). Each site has a different username password... is there an easy way to do this? Like a batch file?

 

[Tim_USMC]

One method that'll work but is kinda cumbersome, is:

uploadall.bat
ftp -s:site1.txt ftp.site1.com
ftp -s:site2.txt ftp.site2.com
ftp -s:site3.txt ftp.site3.com

site1.txt, site2.txt and site3.txt -- the ftp commands for ftp.siteX.com
username
password
ascii
send thefile.cvs
bye

Make site2.txt and site3.txt in the same format for the appropriate site.

Now run uploadall.bat in the same directory as these files.

 

[Stoltenborg]

no ftp access to these sites

 

[fluxion]

no ftp access to these sites

what kind of access do you have? web interface? if so the only option i'm aware of is using Perl and a module called WWW::Mechanize

what it will do is allow you to automate the process of navigating a website (type in username in this field, type in password in this field, submit, click this link, click this button, blah blah), but obviously it will be extremely sensitive to any differences between the websites and you might have to write several different scripts. even then if the layout changes dramatically you will be screwed, but i'm not aware of any elegant way to do what you want without any other type of access method.

 

[PTNL]

no ftp access? how were the websites' files originally uploaded then?

 

[Stoltenborg]

no ftp access? how were the websites' files originally uploaded then?

One of the sites is stubhub.com

I obviously didn't create it, I am just a large user.

 

[jrbryner]

Maybe pscp?