Completely Automated webpagetest application

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(03-07-2011 05:25 AM)chainsaw Wrote:  

(06-15-2010 07:14 AM)ruddh Wrote:  Is there any program that is basically this site but automated? I need a program that automatically checks my site every day and exports the results into a spreadsheet or similar output without me doing anything.

I wrote a script to do exactly that using the Webpagetest API. See

https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.o...stful-apis

My script requests tests and writes test results to a CSV.

Could you kindly share the basic script outline? I downloaded cURL for Windows and succeeded in launching a test from the command line, but don't know how to get hold of the URL for the result:

C:\> curl -o result_test.htm "http://www.webpagetest.org/runtest.php?k=<myapikey>&url=www.cnn.com"

where <myapikey> was provided by Pat. Unfortunately, result_test.htm was not created. But I did see my test appear in the "Test History" page:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110512_ED_KGHB/

Bottom line question: how would I capture the result ID "110512_ED_KGHB" in a script?

Thanks,
Anshul