Sidebar Gadget to Login to website and retrieve information?

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Published on 2010-02-02T10:59:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 0:01 UTC
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I've been learning how to make gadget and the simple gadgets all make sense.

How would I make a Gadget that logs into a website and retrieve details for that user (so it's pretty much simulating the user logging in and showing basic information ??

(eg. like the facebook gadget that shows any messages, "pokes" . etc. etc. ....

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