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

Request npm package

https://github.com/request/request#readme