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chompjs can be used in web scrapping for turning JavaScript objects embedded in pages into valid Python dictionaries.

In web scraping this is particularly useful for parsing Javascript variables like: python import chompjs js = """ var myObj = { myMethod: function(params) { // ... }, myValue: 100 } """ chompjs.parse_js_object(js, json_params={'strict': False}) {'myMethod': 'function(params) {\n // ...\n }', 'myValue': 100}

In practice this can be used to extract hidden JSON data like data from <script id=__NEXT_DATA__> elements from nextjs (and similar) websites. Unlike json.loads command chompjs can ingest json documents that contain javascript natives like functions making it a super easy way to scrape hidden web data objects.

PHP library to get information from any web page (using oembed, opengraph, twitter-cards, scrapping the html, etc). It's compatible with any web service (youtube, vimeo, flickr, instagram, etc) and has adapters to some sites like (archive.org, github, facebook, etc).

Example Use


```python # basic use import chompjs js = """ var myObj = { myMethod: function(params) { // ... }, myValue: 100 } """ chompjs.parse_js_object(js, json_params={'strict': False}) {'myMethod': 'function(params) {\n // ...\n }', 'myValue': 100} # example how to use with hidden data parsing: import httpx import chompjs from parsel import Selector response = httpx.get("http://example.com") hidden_script = Selector(response.text).css("script#__NEXT_DATA__::text").get() data = chompjs.parse_js_object(hidden_script) print(data['props']) ```
```javascript use Embed\Embed; $embed = new Embed(); //Load any url: $info = $embed->get('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1xn5wHtxE'); //Get content info $info->title; //The page title $info->description; //The page description $info->url; //The canonical url $info->keywords; //The page keywords $info->image; //The thumbnail or main image $info->code->html; //The code to embed the image, video, etc $info->code->width; //The exact width of the embed code (if exists) $info->code->height; //The exact height of the embed code (if exists) $info->code->ratio; //The aspect ratio (width/height) $info->authorName; //The resource author $info->authorUrl; //The author url $info->cms; //The cms used $info->language; //The language of the page $info->languages; //The alternative languages $info->providerName; //The provider name of the page (Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, etc) $info->providerUrl; //The provider url $info->icon; //The big icon of the site $info->favicon; //The favicon of the site (an .ico file or a png with up to 32x32px) $info->publishedTime; //The published time of the resource $info->license; //The license url of the resource $info->feeds; //The RSS/Atom feeds ```

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