Cox Communications - Internet Usage

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I scrapped what I had before, and started straight at the okta api. I am pleased to say I am able to request a token, then use that to auth to cox. I will probably have it back up and running real soon!!!

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Great news. Looking forward to your solution :grinning:

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New release! I also fixed the reboot modem switch while i was at it.

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That’s awesome. Where can I find it?

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Works great! Thanks so much !!

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Look here:

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Since March 9, I’ve been getting this error when running the docker image to get Cox usage stats. Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?

File "/usr/bin/coxusage.py", line 27, in <module>
    username = driver.find_element_by_id("okta-signin-username")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 360, in find_element_by_id
    return self.find_element(by=By.ID, value=id_)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 976, in find_element
    return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="okta-signin-username"]"}
  (Session info: headless chrome=77.0.3865.120)
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Login to your cox account and see if the data usage is updated. Mine is at 0 for the month and has been for a few days. Believe cox is having issues with their app.

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My usage is being updated correctly on the Cox site. Here’s a screenshot:

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Hello from Aussie who is using Optus and looking for something similar. Did you end up finding a solution?

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Loving this integration. Is there anyway to treat this as an utility device to pull the data into the new Energy Dashboard?

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Hi all, sorry to revive an old thread, yet it looks like this is the right place. I’ve been wanting to get a scraper running against the Cox Internet usage page for a while. A couple of questions:

  1. As of Sept 2022 is anyone able to verify that any scraping works? Cox making it harder to scrape, so I wanted to clarify if anyonehas anything actually working as of today?

  2. I would have liked to run the docker image made available, however according to the tags, it’s only built for linux/amd64. Provided the python script inside still works, is there any chance of a linux/arm64 rebuild for the Raspberry pi?

  3. If an updated docker container is not on the table, can the depreciated cox_usage.py script be modified to work at all? I tried pulling it from the old repo just to see what it would do, but it seems to run afoul of the site, already when trying to authenticate:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/coxusage/cox_usage.py", line 43, in <module>
    login_form = mechanicalsoup.Form(
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mechanicalsoup/form.py", line 38, in __init__
    if form.name != 'form':
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'

Would love to hear some feedback from the community as to what’s possible in terms of scraping the Cox internet usage page as of today.

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They are using okta, along with MFA(from what I can tell) so it is might be pretty difficult. Your best bet is finding someone that has a working okta login wrapper without the need for an API key.