I've had a look at many tutorials regarding cookiejar, but my problem is that the webpage that i want to scape creates the cookie using javascript and I can't seem to retrieve the cookie. Does anybody have a solution to this problem?
If all pages have the same JavaScript then maybe you could parse the HTML to find that piece of code, and from that get the value the cookie would be set to?
That would make your scraping quite vulnerable to changes in the third party website, but that's most often the case while scraping. (Please bear in mind that the third-party website owner may not like that you're getting the content this way.)
I responded to your other question as well: take a look at mechanize. It's probably the most fully featured scraping module I know: if the cookie is sent, then I'm sure you can get to it with this module.
Maybe you can execute the JavaScript code in a JavaScript engine with Python bindings (like python-spidermonkey or pyv8) and then retrieve the cookie. Or, as the javascript code is executed client side anyway, you may be able to convert the cookie-generating code to Python.
You could access the page using a real browser, via PAMIE, win32com or similar, then the JavaScript will be running in its native environment.
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I was try to scrape some links from the web via google search.
Let's say my query is [games site:pastebin.com].
I was trying this in both python and dart but the result i got was that i need to login in for it and i don't ant to use cookies.
So, is there any way to get the result of https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apastebin.com+games from code block without cookies?
The Code I Tried:
Python 3.9.5
import requests
req = requests.get("https://www.google.com/search?q=games+site%3Apastebin.com")
That fully depends on the website you are trying to access. Some pages won't allow you to use certain features from their page without cookies at all, some do. For the purpose you are trying to achieve, I'd rather recommend using a search API, which doesn't require cookies - since cookies are normally for regular users.
Google usually asfaik doesn't like it if you scrape their content using scripts.
As mentioned before, you can look for alternative search engines, which don't require cookie usage
I want to make a script in python that interacts with a webpage that has quite a lot of javascript in it (it's a webpage that computes a bunch of physics stuff).
I don't want my code to break if the page formatting changes and I want it to run offline so I would prefer my script to run on a local html copy of the page I got (all the JS code is accessible in the HTML source, there is no call to an external server). I wanted to use the requests library to do it, but it only works with URLs. Is there any library to do this? Note that I want to interact with the HTML (input values and look at the outputs etc..), I know that I can parse the file but that's not what I'm asking. I'm also totally new to web bots or anything related.
Right now I can open my .html version of the page offline with chrome and interact with it, so there has to be a way to automate this somehow. I'm also not against using something else than python if there is a better library for this in another language.
interesting question, best way I can think to do that is use a web framework and then just scrape the data using requests. I am familiar with flask and its simple to use but im sure there are other options as well
hi everyone I would like to create a small bot to help me on binary option.
i am not an expert on python but actualy I can read a web page and
retrieve a precise value in a tag,
but the information what I need is on a web application
and not in the source code of the web page. I am not an expert of eb application and I want to know if I retrieve a value displayed on the application with python.
here is a link to the picture of the application:
"http://comparatif-options-binaires.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/optionweb-analyse-technique-ow-school.jpg"
I think the problem you face here is the value you need is being loaded via Javascript of some sort (though without access to the web application and no visible effort from your code I can't be sure).
Expanding on #sabhirams answer (and agreeing that requests and BeautifulSoup are excellent libraries for static text) I would recommend having a look at the following:
Selenium - automates web browser usage in python (so will run the full javascript).
Webkit - Again another headless browser for python that has some excellent SO questions on the matter.
Ghost.py - attempts to make the Webkit experience a little smoother.
pyv8 - something a bit more barebones, pyv8 is a python wrapper for the Google V8 Javascript engine and can be used to run the javascript on the page and, hopefully, extract the element you need.
And if you're really not settled with python why not look at using a Javascript headless browser to run the javascript like PhantomJS.
As mentioned before; Respect others when scraping and be aware there may be consequences if you are caught.
I think you mean you want to build a script which can scrape a given webpage, and extract a certain value out of a given target DOM element.
I dont currently have the time to write this code for you, but it should be rather simple to put together. Here are some modules which might help you:
Request - Use this to fetch a given webpage into your py script
BeautifulSoup - Feed the above "DOM text" to beautiful soup, and you will be able to more easily manipulate the HTML page (fetch your var of interest etc...).
EDIT:
As pointed out in the comments above, please consider the Terms and Conditions of the web-service you are trying to scrape info from.
I am using mechanize to retrieve data from many web site. When I tried to log into www.douban.com , I found there are a lot of cookies not set when I log in success. Finally, I find they came from google analytics. They were set by javascript. However, mechanize can not handle javascript, so how to get these cookies. Without these cookies I still can not visit www.douban.com.
PhantomJS is a headless webkit-based client supporting all bells and wisthles, JavaScript included. It had Python API (PyPhantomJS) which was unfortunately removed due to lack of maintainer. You may still want to take a look.
Sorry to say that, but unless Your crawler knows how to run Javascript code, You are unable to fetch cookies set by Javascript.
I'm trying to interact with a HTML 4.0 website which uses heavily obfuscated javascript to hide the regular HTML elements. What I want to do is to fill out a form and read the returned results, and this is proving harder to do than expected.
When I read the page using Firebug, it gave me the source code deobfuscated, and I can then use this to do what I want to accomplish. The Firebug output showed all the regular elements of a website, such as -tags and the like, which were hidden in the original source.
I've written the rest of my application in Python, using mechanize to interact with other web services, so I'd rather use an existing Python module to do this if that's possible. The problem is not only how to read the source code in a way mechanize can understand, but also how to generate the response which the web server can interpret. Could I use regular mechanize controls even though the html code is obfuscated?
In the beginning of my project I used pywebkitgtk instead of mechanize, but ditched it because it wasn't really implemented that well in python. Most functions are missing. Would that be a sensible method perhaps, to start up a webkit-browser which I read the HTML from, and use that with mechanize?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm really in a bind here. Thanks!
Edit: I tried dumping the HTML fetched from mechanize and opening that with pywebkitgtk, using load_html_string, and then evaluating the html that way. Unfortunately, since the document I'm trying to parse loads more resources dynamically, that scripts just stops waiting for resources to be loaded. Note that I can't use webkit to load the document itself since I use mechanize's CookieJar function to allow me to log in first.
I also tried dumping the HTML from webkit, which for some reason dumped the obfuscated javascript only, while displaying the website perfectly fine. If webkit could dump the deobfuscated javascript the way Firebug does, I could work with that and form a request according to the clean code..
Rather than trying to process the page, how about just use Firebug to figure out the names of the form fields, and then use httplib or whatever to send a request with the necessary fields and settings?
If it's sent using ajax, you should be able to determine the values being sent to the server in Firebug as well.