Parsing HTML with JavaScript

[Richard Brodie]

<mtfulmer at tacobell.land> wrote in message news:slrnd88pns.qsm.mtfulmer at tacobell.land...

> I am trying to extract some information from a few web pages, and I was
> using the HTMLParser module. It worked fine until it got to the
> javascript, at which it gave a parse error.

It's fairly common for pages with Javascript to also be invalid HTML.
HTMLParser isn't an 'ignore all errors silently and guess what it's
meant to be' parser. Unless you have known good inputs it's often
best to use an alternative. Some options are discussed in Uche's article
here: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/09/08/pyxml.html