guestsess

@title guestsess
@echo off
:: NOTE: now requires ua.txt which contains a user agent string
if not exist ua.txt (echo Please make a textfile named ua.txt that contains a User Agent string && goto :done)
set /p useragent=<ua.txt
:: guestsess.bat
:: windows xp batch script
:: fetches a 26-character guest sessionid from younow, saves it as sessionid.txt, loads it into the variable sessionid
:: which can later be called in a batch file with %sessionid%
::
:: requires wget, grep, sed (all from GnuWin32) all in PATH or same directory as batch file
:: or temporarily in PATH with something like below if you uncomment it (remove the ::) and paste their install directory after the ; (without quotes)
::SET PATH=%PATH%;
::
@wget -U "%useragent%" -T 10 http://www.younow.com/php/api/younow/user -O - | grep -o ".session.:.[a-z0-9]*." | sed -e "s/.session.:.//" -e "s/.$//" > sessionid.txt
@set /p sessionid=<sessionid.txt
:done