Executing Javascript, then reading value

[Melih Onvural]

In fact what you're describing is exactly what I needed. I ended up
finding a way to execute the javascript using Rhino and then capturing
the
result. Not exactly what I wanted to do, but once I found it out, it
works.

Melih Onvural

On Jan 30, 2:57 pm, John Nagle <n... at animats.com> wrote:
> Melih Onvural wrote:
> > Thanks, let me check out this route, and then I'll post the results.
>
> > Melih Onvural
>
> > On Jan 29, 4:04 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar... at divmod.com> wrote:
>
> >> On 29 Jan 2007 12:44:07 -0800, Melih Onvural <melih.onvu... at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> I need to execute some javascript and then read the value as part of a
> >>> program that I am writing. I am currently doing something like
> >>> this:Python doesn't include a JavaScript runtime.  You might look into
> >>> the
>
> >> stand-alone Spidermonkey runtime.  However, it lacks the DOM APIs, so it
> >> may not be able to run the JavaScript you are interested in running. There
> >> are a couple other JavaScript runtimes available, at least.  If
> >> Spidermonkey is not suitable, you might look into one of them.
>
>     This is getting to be a common problem.  One used to be able to
> look at web pages from a program by reading the HTML.  Now you need to
> load the page into a browser-like environment, run at least the
> OnLoad JavaScript, and then start looking at the document object module.
> This requires a browser emulator, a browser without a renderer.
> Useful for spam filters and such.
>
>      It's not clear if the original poster needs that much capability,
> though.
>
>                                 John Nagle