Written by like most people who use adsense, i am kinda anal about it.. i check it ALOT.. i figured that there would be a a widget that would keep me posted on my earnings.. it turns out that there are ALOT of such widgets..
the problem is, i couldn’t get any of them to work.
i opened up the source code, and found that they use curl to download the current csv file. this seems to be the problem, as in order to get into the file, you must log in to google. the problem is, the curl incantation doesn’t let you into google.
the incantation looks like:
curl -o temp.html -s -c cookies -d username=$2 -d password=$3 https://www.google.com/adsense/login.do
where $2 and $3 are passed by the widget.
i tried unraveling the google login, but had to give up after a few minutes, since i have real work to do.
anyway..
once i get that wired, the widgets should work just fine..
has anyone else gotten these to work?
It worked for a long time, but now it doesn’t. No idea about why. I have the same problem. I found your blog while searching for this issue on Google. Funny, isn’t it?