On Mar 18, 8:25 pm, "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > Greg <gregsaundersem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, I've been trying to find a way to fetch and read a web page > > that requiresjavascripton the client side and it seems impossible. > > I've read several threads in this group that say as much but I just > > can't believe it to be true (I'm subscribing to the "argument of > > personal incredulity " here). > > > Clearly urllib and urllib2 don't seem to support this and I've looked > > at win32com.client and it's ScriptControl but that doesn't seem to be > > viable approach for this particular problem. > > > Does anyone have any suggestions, hack or ideas or am I missing > > something really obvious. > > Well, this is what is called a Hard Problem :). It requires not > only supporting the execution ofjavascript(and therefore an entire > additional language interpreter!), but also translating that > execution into something that doesn't have a browser attached to it > for input or output. > > That said, I've heard mention here of something that can apparently be > used for this. I think it was some incarnation of Webkit.
yep. patch #16401 - don't use the cut-down version that the other company who are doing "vala" bindings are using - use the version that i've worked on, until they support the "full" DOM bindings. better yet, just grab the code from the git repository i'm maintaining - http://github.com/lkcl/webkit/tree/16401.master > I remember > someone saying yep, it was me :) > you wanted to use the one with, I think it was GTK > bindings, even though you were dealing with just network IO. But I don't > remember clearly and did not record the reference. Perhaps the person > who posted that info will answer you, i do searches for the words "ajax" and "javascript" and "pyjamas" using groups.google.com occasionally, and pick things up - eventually :) > Unfortunately I'm not 100% sure it was Webkit. it was - however i've since found three other projects (including python-hulahop, the best other alternate candidate). l. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
