Re: Javascript Execution

There are also JavaScript engines available in C and Java
(SpiderMonkey and Rhino, respectively, available on mozilla.org).  You
may be able to leverage those.

Chris

On 12/17/05, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >I am working on a http agent which harvests various products and prices on
> >a number of websites. The problem I run into is that some sites use
> >javascript.
>
> There is Win32::IE::Mechanize.
>
> >After downloading a web page from my perl script, what I want to do is:
> >1. Execute any existing javascript on the page.
> >2. Modify the page according to the javascript results.
> >3. Save the page to a local file.
>
> Note that the scripts might not terminate, so you might get the DOM
> at a specific point, but there is not necessarily a specific result.
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