Quick-and-dirty script to fetch the latest bill from AT&T as a PDF.

bill_getter.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8

require 'optparse'
require 'ostruct'
require 'mechanize'

options = OpenStruct.new

parser = OptionParser.new do |p|
  p.banner = 'Usage: bill_getter [OPTIONS]'

  p.separator 'Example: bill_getter -u [email protected] -p secret'

  p.separator ''
  p.separator 'Getter options:'

  p.on('-u', '--user USERNAME',
       'Login using the user USERNAME') do |user|
    options.user = user
  end

  p.on('-p', '--password PASSWORD',
       'Authenticate with PASSWORD') do |pw|
    options.pw = pw
  end

  p.on('-f', '--filename FILENAME',
       'Save PDF to FILENAME',
       '(default stdout)') do |filename|
    options.filename = File.expand_path filename
  end

  p.separator ''
  p.separator 'Miscellaneous:'

  p.on_tail('-h', '--help', 'Show this message') do
    puts p
    exit
  end
end

begin
  parser.parse! ARGV

  raise ArgumentError unless options.user && options.pw
rescue
  puts parser
  exit
end

agent                  = Mechanize.new
agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'

page              = agent.get 'http://www.att.com/uversecentral'

form              = page.form 'loginActionForm'
form.wireless_num = options.user
form.accountType  = 'UVERSE'
form.pass         = options.pw
form.customerType = 'UVERSE'

agent.submit form

pdf = agent.get_file 'https://www.att.com/view/uverse_printer_friendly.action'

if options.filename
  File.open(options.filename, 'w') {|f| f.write pdf}
else
  puts pdf
end

Usage

Just run bill_getter.rb --help and you'll see how to use it. Can either output to standard out or a file. Doesn't do any error checking, and will probably break whenever AT&T next screws with their webpage.