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Script to redeem automatically books from `https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning` using bash and cronjob
#!/bin/bash
#==INSTRUCTIONS
# - Add EMAIL and PASS infomation
# - Replace script path with your path `/home/USER/scripts/` in the script
# - Check your machine timezone `date +"%Z %z"` output ex: UTC +0000
# - patckpub.com is UTC +0000, find the best hour for you to use in the crontab
# - Execute `crontab -e`
# - Add `0 1 * * * /bin/sh /home/USER/scripts/packtpub_redeem.sh > /home/USER/scripts/packtpub_redeem.out` , this mean everyday 1am
# - Restart Service `sudo service cron reload` (optional, crontab -e, will reload)
# - Add Permission `chmod 755 /home/USER/scripts/packtpub_redeem.sh`
#==
COOKIE="cookie.txt"
EMAIL=""
PASS=""
#Change dir to script folder
cd /home/USER/scripts/
#Login and store Cookie
curl --silent -X POST -c ${COOKIE} \
-d "mail=${EMAIL}&password=${PASS}" \
https://www.packtpub.com/api/user/login > login.json
#Get Claim URL
PACKT_CLAIM_URL=$(
curl --silent https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning | \
grep freelearning-claim | \
sed 's/\t//g' | \
awk '{print "https://www.packtpub.com"$2}' | \
sed -e 's/href\=\"//g' -e 's/.$//g'
)
#Claim book using the Cookies from previous login and the extracted Claim URL
#https://www.packtpub.com/freelearning-claim/XXX/YYY
curl --silent -L -X GET -b ${COOKIE} ${PACKT_CLAIM_URL} > output.html
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johand commented Apr 16, 2017

@hgouveia puedes crear una variable con whoami para no tener que reemplazar de forma manual el path hacia el home del usuario, por ejemplo

USER=$(whoami)

cd /home/$USER/scripts/

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@johand , la idea es que el usuario coloque el script donde quiera, y solo modifique la ruta completa en esa linea

Si añado lo que me comentas, el user sera, root ,que es el usuario por defecto del cronjob, otra forma mas directa, es usar cd ~/scripts y tendria el mismo efecto, pero sigue teniendo el problema del usuario sera root

Una solucion seria especificarlo en el crontab crontab -u myuser -e o especificarlo directamente en el comando

#<timing> <user> <command>
0 1 * * * myuser /bin/sh ~/scripts/packtpub_redeem.sh > ~/scripts/packtpub_redeem.out

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