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chompjsvshtml5lib

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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:

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.

html5lib is a pure-python library for parsing HTML. It is designed to conform to the WHATWG HTML specification, as is implemented by all major web browsers.

As html5lib is implemented in pure-python it is significantly slower than alternatives powered by lxml (like parsel or beautifulsoup). However, html5lib implements a more true html5 parsing which can represent HTML tree more correctly than alternatives.

Example Use


# 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'])
import html5lib
from html5lib import parse

html_doc = "<html><head><title>My Title</title></head><body></body></html>"
parsed = parse(html_doc)
title = parsed.getElementsByTagName("title")[0]
print(title.childNodes[0].nodeValue)

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