Grab posts from the Roblox forums from your tracked threads

grab_tracked.lua

#!/usr/bin/lua

local tracked_url = "http://www.roblox.com/Forum/User/MyForums.aspx"
local base_url = "http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID="
local cookie = "(Paste your .ROBLOSECURITY cookie which you can find in your browser cookies, don't share this script with it still pasted in there obviously)"

function cmd(txt)
	os.execute(txt)
end

function fread(filename)
	return io.open(filename, 'r'):read("*all")
end

function openwrite(filename)
	return io.open(filename, 'w+')
end

cmd('curl --cookie ".ROBLOSECURITY="'..cookie..' '..tracked_url..' > tracked.html')

local tracked_html = fread('tracked.html')
local urls_txt = openwrite('urls.txt')
local post_id_list = {}

-- Top part -> tracked threads, Bottom part -> recent threads
local top_part = tracked_html:find("<h2>Your Last ")
tracked_html = tracked_html:sub(1, top_part)

-- Find post IDs
for id in tracked_html:gmatch('href="/Forum/ShowPost.aspx%?PostID=(%d+)"><div') do
	urls_txt:write(id.."\n")
	table.insert(post_id_list, tonumber(id))
end

-- Create a folder for the posts
cmd[[mkdir data]]

-- For each post Id, get that post
for _, id in pairs(post_id_list) do
	cmd('curl --cookie ".ROBLOSECURITY="'..cookie..' '..base_url..id..' > '..id..'.html')
end

print("Done, saved "..(#post_id_list).." threads.")