Python3 html scraper that supports javascript

[Stephen Hansen]

On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 08:33 AM, zljubisic at gmail.com wrote:
> I tried to use the following code:
> 
> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
> from selenium import webdriver
> 
> PHANTOMJS_PATH =
> 'C:\\Users\\Zoran\\Downloads\\Obrisi\\phantomjs-2.1.1-windows\\bin\\phantomjs.exe'
> 
> url =
> 'https://hrti.hrt.hr/#/video/show/2203605/trebizat-prica-o-jednoj-vodi-i-jednom-narodu-dokumentarni-film'
> 
> browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(PHANTOMJS_PATH)
> browser.get(url)
> 
> soup = BeautifulSoup(browser.page_source, "html.parser")
> 
> x = soup.prettify()
> 
> print(x)
> 
> When I print x variable, I would expect to see something like this:
> <video
> src="mediasource:https://hrti.hrt.hr/2e9e9c45-aa23-4d08-9055-cd2d7f2c4d58"
> id="vjs_video_3_html5_api" class="vjs-tech" preload="none"><source
> type="application/x-mpegURL"
> src="https://prd-hrt.spectar.tv/player/get_smil/id/2203605/video_id/2203605/token/Cny6ga5VEQSJ2uZaD2G8pg/token_expiration/1462043309/asset_type/Movie/playlist_template/nginx/channel_name/trebiat__pria_o_jednoj_vodi_i_jednom_narodu_dokumentarni_film/playlist.m3u8?foo=bar">
> </video>
> 
> but I can't come to that point.

Why? As important as it is to show code, you need to show what actually
happens and what error message is produced.

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Stephen Hansen
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