LTPA-scraper
About
LTPA-scraper scrapes the IBM WPS portal server website login form to receive an LTPA2 token.
Install
You can either install it as local dependency to a project, or install it globally to be able to use it on the command line.
To install ltpa-scraper globally, on the command line type the following:
$ npm install -g ltpa-scraper
Once installed globally, you can run it from any location:
$ ltpa-scraper --help
Usage Command Line
$ ltpa-scraper --username <username> --password <password> --url https://wps-page.com [--verbose]
For example, the output of the command above could look like this:
{
"LtpaToken2": "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",
"JSESSIONID": "0000tCpWj6q-5kCiGSQ4uJRT9hp:1d0cq5mdh"
}
Usage in Code
We assume that npm is installed and that the project already contains a package.json file. If not, then first initialize the project.
$ npm init
Install ltpa-scraper as node module and save it to package.json:
$ npm install ltpa-scraper --save
Add ltpa-scraper to your program with require
and call scrape() with the username and password encapsulated within a
configuration object:
const ltpaScraper = require('ltpa-scraper');
const options = {
url: 'https://wps-website',
username: 'username',
password: 'password',
verbose: false
}
ltpaScraper.scrape(options)
.then(tokens => {
// Pretty print orders to console.
console.log(JSON.stringify(tokens, null, 2));
})
.catch(error => {
console.log('ERROR: Failed to load the tokens:');
console.log(error);
});
Development
Unit tests
To start the unit tests:
$ npm run test
Code style
JavaScript project code style:
https://github.com/standard/standard