Re: read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-29 Thread lkcl
On Mar 20, 1:09 am, Greg wrote: > On Mar 18, 7:25 pm, Carl wrote: > > > > > On Mar 18, 1:56 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > > > > In article , > > > R. David Murray wrote: > > > > >That said, I've heard mention here of something that can apparently be > > > >used for this. I think it w

Re: read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-29 Thread lkcl
On Mar 18, 8:25 pm, "R. David Murray" wrote: > Greg 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

Re: read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-29 Thread lkcl
On Mar 18, 8:01 pm, Greg wrote: > Hello all, I've been trying to find a way to fetch and read a web page > that requires javascript on the client side and it seems impossible. you're right: it's not impossible. > I've read several threads in this group that say as much but I just > can't believ

Re: read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-19 Thread Greg
On Mar 18, 7:25 pm, Carl wrote: > On Mar 18, 1:56 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > > > > > In article , > > R. David Murray wrote: > > > >That said, I've heard mention here of something that can apparently be > > >used for this.  I think it was some incarnation of Webkit.  I remember > >

Re: read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-19 Thread James Matthews
You can try and use wxpythons broswer to execute the javascript On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Greg wrote: > Hello all, I've been trying to find a way to fetch and read a web page > that requires javascript on the client side and it seems impossible. > I've read several threads in this group

Re: read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-19 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Carl wrote: > Probably the easiest thing is to actually use a browser. There are > many examples of automating a browser via Python. So, you can > programmatically launch the browser, point it to the JavaScript > afflicted page, let the JS run and grab the page so

Re: read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-18 Thread Carl
On Mar 18, 1:56 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > In article , > R. David Murray wrote: > > > > >That said, I've heard mention here of something that can apparently be > >used for this.  I think it was some incarnation of Webkit.  I remember > >someone saying you wanted to use the one with,

Re: read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-18 Thread Aahz
In article , R. David Murray wrote: > >That said, I've heard mention here of something that can apparently be >used for this. I think it was some incarnation of Webkit. I remember >someone saying you wanted to use the one with, I think it was GTK >bindings, even though you were dealing with just

read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-18 Thread R. David Murray
Greg wrote: > Hello all, I've been trying to find a way to fetch and read a web page > that requires javascript on 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 > per

read web page that requires javascript on client

2009-03-18 Thread Greg
Hello all, I've been trying to find a way to fetch and read a web page that requires javascript on 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 " her