Plugin:cURL-XML

cURL-XML plugin
Type:	read
Callbacks:	config, read
Status:	supported
First version:	4.10
Copyright:	2009,2010 Amit Gupta
License:	GPLv2
Manpage:	collectd.conf(5)
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The cURL-XML plugin reads files using libcurl and parses it as Extensible Markup Language (XML). The parsed tree is then traversed according to the user's configuration, using the XML Path Language (XPath).

This plugin is a generic plugin, i.e. it cannot work without configuration, because there is no reasonable default behavior. Please read the Plugin curl_xml section of the collectd.conf(5) manual page for an in-depth description of the plugin's configuration.

Synopsis

→ See: Plugin:cURL-XML/Config

<Plugin "curl_xml">
  <URL "http://localhost/stats.xml">
    Host "my_host"
    Instance "some_instance"
    User "collectd"
    Password "thaiNg0I"
    VerifyPeer true
    VerifyHost true
    CACert "/path/to/ca.crt"
    
    <xpath "table[@id=\"magic_level\"]/tr">
      Type "magic_level"
      #InstancePrefix "prefix-"
      InstanceFrom "td[1]"
      ValuesFrom "td[2]/span[@class=\"level\"]"
    </xpath>
  </URL>
</Plugin>

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Dependencies

• libcurl
• libxml2

See also

• Example configurations
• cURL plugin
• cURL-JSON plugin