DUF (Dataone Usage Finder)
DUF 2 released. So, the inevitable change to the BSNL site happened.Nothing major. Just a few words changed here and there and DUF started complaining yet again. The last version lasted only a couple of months as compared to the earlier version which kept on going for nearly an year.
The relation between DUF and BSNL appears to be too fragile for comfort, and I guess we will have to live with it.
Now on, modifications made as a result of the structural changes to BSNL site will not require the download of the entire setup.
This is still experimental.
I am sorry for the delay in fixing the current problem. What is DUF? Dataone is a broadband Internet service (www.bsnl.co.in/service/dataone.htm) offered by BSNL, a major ISP of India.. This service imposes an upload/download usage limit on its users. Usage between 2am and 8am is free, under certain schemes.This makes it imperative for the users to keep an eye on their usage statistics. However, the BSNL website which provides these usage figures is not very useful, as any Dataone user will vouch. Only the monthly total of the bandwidth used is provided. There is no provision for knowing the daily total. Also there is no demarcation between free time usage and paid time usage. These are the very figures a user would be most intersted in. DUF (Dataone Usage Finder) is a very simple screen scraper program coded in VB6 (Yes guys, VB is still used!) which uses IE5 or higher, to fetch pages from the BSNL site, and after parsing out the required records, presents them in a manner which is more helpful. This data can also be saved as html files. Hope you find it useful. Please send in your comments and suggestions to make DUF better.
Download:
duf_v2.0_setup.exe (Updated July 22nd 2007) duf_v1.5a_setup.exe (Updated May 4th 2007) duf_v1.5_setup.exe (Updated Jan 2nd 2007) duf_1.4beta_setup.exe (Updated Feb 19th 2006) duf_1.3_setup.exe (Updated Jan 12th 2006) duf_1.3_src.zip
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News:
Version 2.0 released (July 22nd 2007)
Fixed the error caused by the changes in BSNL site.
New features:
Version 1.5a released (May 4th 2007)
1. A major overhaul of the updation technique. Modifications needed in response to changes in BSNL site will be released in patches form.
2. DUF itself will be capable of downloading and applying the new changes. 3. The Tax rate can also be now added to the "Tariff.txt" file. Okay, so the chinese developers at BSNL finally made some changes to their site. They changed a column heading from "Excluding Night Unlimited" to "Fee"! Wow. Anyways since DUF is a duffer screen scraper, it failed. Here is the patched version. It will last only as long as there are no further changes in the BSNL site. I am beginning to hope that is never ;-)
Version 1.5 released (Jan 2nd 2007)
New features:
1. Has the latest tariff plans. The plans are contained in a plain text file "Tariff.txt" found in the same folder as DUF. The records are Tab delimited and can be modified if there are any further changes in the tariff structure. 2. The IP addresses or URLs of the various BSNL servers are now contained in another text file "Servers.txt". This also can be modified as new servers are "discovered". |