I am assuming that you want the data after the javascript writes have been performed (not just the raw html doc without the writes performed). If so, here is a trick:

ELinks is a text only browser with some javascript support. You might want to script it to download and save the rendered page, then run your script across that.

You might consider the same thing with mozilla. Allow it to perform all of the javascript writes, and then scrape that. With a little poking around you will find that mozilla can be pretty easy to work with(look at JRex as a possible start). The idea here is: let a javascript rendering engine perform all the writes, then scrape the results.

In reply to Re: javascript to html to perl by scmason
in thread javascript to html to perl by rduke15

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