Hi all,
I intend to code up a quick script to run from cron each month to look
up a Premium Bond holder's number on the NSandI lookup page[0] to find
out whether that holder's number has won a prize or not, and thought I
may as well release it to CPAN as a small module.
I'm thinking Finance::PremiumBonds or something similiar - any better
suggestions?
It'll offer a very, very simple interface to start - something like:
if (Finance::PremiumBonds::has_won($holder_number)) {
# we've won something
}
Unless I can get National Savings + Investments to give me details of
each response their site gives (probably unlikely) I think it'll have to
be restricted for the simplicity of looking for "not this time - better
luck next month" in the response, and assuming that the presence of that
phrase means no win, but a successful response without that phrase means
we might have won (or they might just have changed their website copy -
the joys of screen-scrapage).
Cheers
Dave P
[0] http://www.nsandi.com/products/pb/haveYouWon.jsp
