blogng/blog/2014-08-16-automatic-log-in-for-act-broadband.markdown

---
comments: true
date: 2014-08-16 19:14
layout: post
tags: scripts, bangalore, act broadband
title: Automatic log-in for ACT Broadband
---

In my openion [ACT](http://portal.acttv.in) is the best ISP in [Bangalore](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore), I found this network to be much better than any other provider in terms of reliability and the bandwidth, they seem very hacker friendly too, logging in as straightforward as a simple HTTP POST. 

I have this script running in my router so that I never have to bother logging in.

```bash
#!/bin/bash

USERNAME=""
PASSWORD=""

curl --data 'act_username=${USERNAME}&act_password=${PASSWORD}&login=login' \
  http://portal.acttv.in -o /dev/null
```
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			`comments: true`
Convert from old categories to tags import sys import yaml with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp: data = fp.read() if not data.find("---") == 0: # no head print("NO YAML HEAD FOUND") sys.exit(-1) data = data[3:] head_end = data.find("---") head = data[0:head_end] data = data[head_end+3:] metadata = yaml.safe_load(head) cats = metadata.pop('categories', None) if cats != None: if type(cats) == list: tags = cats elif type(cats) == str: tags = cats.split() tags = list(map(lambda t: t.lower(), tags)) metadata["tags"] = ", ".join(tags) new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" # write it print(f"coverted: categories to tags: {tags} - {sys.argv[1]}") with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) if not metadata.get("tags", None): metadata["tags"] = "untagged" new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" print(f"untagged: {sys.argv[1]}") # write it with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) print("No changes needed") 2019-01-28 22:16:27 +00:00			`date: 2014-08-16 19:14`
			`layout: post`
			`tags: scripts, bangalore, act broadband`
			`title: Automatic log-in for ACT Broadband`
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			`---`

			`In my openion [ACT](http://portal.acttv.in) is the best ISP in [Bangalore](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore), I found this network to be much better than any other provider in terms of reliability and the bandwidth, they seem very hacker friendly too, logging in as straightforward as a simple HTTP POST.`

			`I have this script running in my router so that I never have to bother logging in.`

			```bash
			`#!/bin/bash`

			`USERNAME=""`
			`PASSWORD=""`

			`curl --data 'act_username=${USERNAME}&act_password=${PASSWORD}&login=login' \`
			`http://portal.acttv.in -o /dev/null`
			```