Just a little class to programmatically look up unclaimed property for californians.

unclaimed.rb

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'pry'
require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'

class UnclaimedProperty
  attr_accessor :lname, :fname, :middle, :city
	attr_reader :results, :more_results_than_shown
	def initialize(options)
		@lname  =  options.delete :lname;
		@fname  =  options.delete :fname;
		@middle =  options.delete :middle;
		@city   =  options.delete :city;
		@form_data = {}
		@url = "https://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/Default.aspx"
		@search_results_html = ""
		@cookie = "";
		@results = [];
		@more_results_than_shown = false;
	end
	def getAntiCSRFTokens
		url   =  "https://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/Default.aspx"
		data  =  Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
		@form_data[:__VIEWSTATE] = data.at_css("#__VIEWSTATE").attr(:value)
		@form_data[:__EVENTVALIDATION] = data.at_css("#__EVENTVALIDATION").attr(:value)
		@form_data['__EVENTTARGET'] = ""
		@form_data['__EVENTARGUMENT'] = ""
	end

	def getSeachResults
		uri = URI.parse(@url)
		https = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host,uri.port)
		https.use_ssl = true
		request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
		@form_data['ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtFirstName'] = @fname
		@form_data['ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtLastName']  = @lname
		@form_data['ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtMiddleInitial'] = @middle
		@form_data['ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtIndividualCity'] = @city
		@form_data['ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$btnSearch']    = "Search"
		request.set_form_data(@form_data)
		@search_results_html = https.request(request)
		#the results are hidden behind a redirect.
		results_url = @search_results_html.response['location']
		# binding.pry
		results_url.gsub!(/(pagesize=)\d+/i,'\11000')
		@cookie = @search_results_html.get_fields( 'Set-Cookie' )[0][/[^;]+/]
		@search_results_html = Nokogiri::HTML(open(results_url,"Cookie" => @cookie))
		self.doLoop()
	end

	def doLoop
		@more_results_than_shown = !@search_results_html.css("#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_pnlResultInfo").nil? 
		rows = @search_results_html.css("#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvResults .gridViewRow")
		rows.each_with_index do |row,index|
			cells = row.css("td")
			type = cells[4].css("img").attribute("src").content=="images/pIcon.gif" ? ":)" : ":|"
			result = {}
			result[:canBeRecovered] = cells[4].css("img").attribute("src").content=="images/pIcon.gif"
			result[:name] = cells[0].content
			result[:address] = cells[1].content
			result[:line2]   = cells[2].content.gsub(/\s+/," ")
			result[:idNumber] = cells[3].content
			result[:recNumber] = cells[3].at_css("a").attr(:href)[/\d+$/]
			@results << result.merge(getPropertyDetails(cells[3].at_css("a").attr(:href)))
		end
	end
	def getPropertyDetails(url)
		result = {}
		details_connection = open(url, "Cookie"=>@cookie)
		if details_connection.meta['set-cookie']
			@cookie = details_connection.meta['set-cookie'][/[^;]*/]
		end
		data = Nokogiri::HTML(details_connection.read)
		result[:type]  =  data.at_css("#PropertyTypeData").content.strip
		result[:value] =  nil
		result[:holder] = data.at_css("#HolderNameData")
		result[:reporter] = data.at_css("#ReportedByData")
		result[:holder] = result[:holder].content.strip if result[:holder]!=nil
		result[:reporter] = result[:reporter].content.strip if result[:reporter]!=nil
		type  = data.at_css("#PropertyTypeData").content.strip
		value = data.at_css("#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_CashReportData")
		if value
			result[:value] = value.content.strip
		end
		return result
	end
end

unclaimed = UnclaimedProperty.new(fname:"John",lname:"Smith")
unclaimed.getAntiCSRFTokens()
unclaimed.getSeachResults()
puts "Found #{unclaimed.results.length}#{unclaimed.more_results_than_shown ? "+":""} records for #{unclaimed.fname} #{unclaimed.lname}"
unclaimed.fname = "Jane"
unclaimed.getSeachResults()
puts "Found #{unclaimed.results.length}#{unclaimed.more_results_than_shown ? "+":""} records for #{unclaimed.fname} #{unclaimed.lname}"