Scripts

A small collection of Perl and PHP scripts that may, or may not, be of some use.

untiny.pl: Have you ever followed an innocent looking link and ended up at goatse.cx or tubgirl.com? Have you ever received spam enticing you to click on a link that re-directs across various websites before taking you to a viagra sales portal? Ever had a problem where an annoying re-direct fails in your browser and the whole process is too quick to figure out what's going on? This script takes an HTTP URL, follows the re-directs and produces a simple list of the intermediate URLs. The last item in the list is the ultimate destination.

sky.php: A PHP script to display programme information for Sky TV. The Sky website is useless for this so I wrote a Perl script that grabs all of the programme listings from Sky's site and runs them into a database at 1am each day. The PHP script provides a front end to the database - the script sets a cookie to remember which channels you last looked at, so please accept the cookie or the script will run unpredictably. There's also a basic search feature which can tell you if your favourite show is listed for that day. This script is particularly useful if you're using a PDA - it's relatively lightweight and displays nicely using NetFront on my UX50. I never did finish this properly, so expect some bugs ;-) Sadly, Sky have rejigged their website and this script no longer works. Please visit Sky for their own programme listings.

cpmp3: A quick Perl script to copy MP3 files onto a memorystick for use in a Sony Clié.

garbage: A bookmarket for Mozilla to fill in web forms with err .. garbage. I got tired of having to constantly re-fill forms during a project, so I wrote this to save myself a lot of heartache. You'll need to edit it to suit your needs because it's a very quick and nasty hack.