We use Elluminate Live! for some of our meetings, and it has always bothered me that I have to launch the browser to use Elluminate especially for reoccurring meetings. So one afternoon I set out to fix this problem. I wrote the following script and have been using it for about a month now without any issues. You can set the parameters at the head of the script if you have a reoccurring meeting you want to use, or set the parameters at run time (or in an alias for multiple reoccurring meetings) if you need too.
The only prerequisite for this script is to have javaws installed an in your PATH.
#!/bin/bash
nick="NICKGOESHERE"
participant_password="PASSWORD"
leader_password="PASSWORD"
sid="SID"
output="/tmp/meeting.jnlp"
launch_on_download="true"
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usage() {
echo "usage: $0 [-n nick] [-p password] [-s sid] [-f file] [-l] [-j]"
echo -e "\t-n The username"
echo -e "\t-p The elluminate 'password'"
echo -e "\t-s The elluminate 'sid'"
echo -e "\t-l Use the leader password or the provided password is the leader password"
echo -e "\t-f The output file [default ./meeting.jnlp]"
echo -e "\t-j Launch the meeting file"
}
password=""
leader="false"
while getopts "hn:p:s:f:l" opt
do
case $opt in
n)
echo "setting nick $OPTARG"
nick=$OPTARG
;;
p)
echo "setting password $OPTARG"
password=$OPTARG
;;
l)
echo "using leader password"
leader="true"
;;
s)
echo "setting sid $OPTARG"
sid=$OPTARG
;;
f)
echo "setting output $OPTARG"
output=$OPTARG
;;
j)
launch_on_download="true"
;;
h)
usage
exit
;;
?)
usage
exit
;;
esac
done
if [ ".$password" == "." ]
then
if [ ".$leader" == ".true" ]
then
password=$leader_password
else
password=$participant_password
fi
fi
if [ ".$output" == "." ]
then
output_file="meeting.jnlp"
else
output_file=$output
fi
post_data=""
url=""
curl_type=""
referer=""
if [ ".$leader" == ".true" ]
then
#Leader needs to be a GET not a POST. Plus some different headers
url="https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=$sid&miuid=$password"
curl_type="GET"
referer="https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/meeting.jnlp?sid=$sid&miuid=$password"
curl -s --insecure \
-H 'Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' \
-H 'Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3' \
-H 'Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch' \
-H 'Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8' \
-H 'Connection:keep-alive' \
-H 'DNT:1' \
-H 'Host:sas.elluminate.com' \
-H "Referer:$referer" \
-H 'User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4' \
-X $curl_type \
$url > $output_file
else
post_data="username=$nick&sid=$sid&password=$password&submit.x=0&submit.y=0"
url="https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp"
curl_type="POST"
referer="https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=$sid&password=$password"
curl -s --insecure \
-H 'Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' \
-H 'Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3' \
-H 'Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch' \
-H 'Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8' \
-H 'Cache-Control:max-age=0' \
-H 'Connection:keep-alive' \
-H 'Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
-H 'DNT:1' \
-H 'Host:sas.elluminate.com' \
-H 'Origin:https://sas.elluminate.com' \
-H "Referer:$referer" \
-H 'User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4' \
-d "$post_data" \
-X $curl_type \
$url > $output_file
fi
if [ ".$launch_on_download" == ".true" ]
then
javaws $output_file
fi