<p>I would like to make a nightly cron job that fetches my stackoverflow page and diffs it from the previous day's page, so I can see a change summary of my questions, answers, ranking, etc.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I couldn't get the right set of cookies, etc, to make this work.  Any ideas?</p>

<p>Also, when the beta is finished, will my status page be accessible without logging in?</p>

Nice idea :)
I presume you've used wget's
```
```
--load-cookies (filename)
```
```
might help a little but it might be easier to use something like Mechanize (in Perl or python) to mimic a browser more fully to get a good spider.