Hi Ralph
Thank you very much for your response.
Kind regards

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Conoscenza Silente <
> abruzzoforteegentile_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I would like to download a web page that is rendered by a javascript
>> calling some server application somewhere.
>> The web page, once rendered, contains a big simple table that I need to
>> parse.
>> I try to used curl with the URL I have but I cannot download the table;
>> what I download is only the web page calling the javascript itself.
>> Do you know if I have to use some sepcific options in order to do that?
>>
>
> You could extract the url to download the javascript, but curl doesn't have
> a built-in method to process the javascript to get the rendered page. You
> might be able to pass the javascript through an external javascript
> interpreter, but there's a high probability of failure if the javascript
> refers to page elements. You simply won't have the correct environment to
> properly evaluate the javascript.
>
> On the other hand, if you can reduce the javascript-generated page to a few
> simple elements, it might still be possible to proceed further. You'll
> probably need to inspect the javascript and work out by hand exactly what it
> produces to be able to continue.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
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Received on 2010-01-08