python to enable javascript , tried selinium, ghost, pyQt4 already

Denis McMahon denismfmcmahon at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 16:40:38 EST 2014


On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 05:13:57 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jaiprakash Singh
> <jaiprakash at wisepromo.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>>      can you please suggest me some method for  study so that i can
>>      scrap a site having JavaScript behind it
>>
>>
>>  i have tried selenium, ghost, pyQt4,  but it is slow and as a am
>>  working with thread it sinks my ram memory very fast.
> 
> Do you mean "scrape"? You're trying to retrieve the displayed contents
> of a web page that uses JavaScript? If so, that's basically impossible
> without actually executing the JS code, which means largely replicating
> the web browser.

Oh, you think he meant scrape? I thought he was trying to scrap (as in 
throw away / replace) an old javascript heavy website with something 
using python instead.

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Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com



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