Re: How do I read the rest of this web site?

From: ToddAndMargo via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:04:30 -0700

On 9/16/22 15:45, Ray Satiro via curl-users wrote:
> On 9/16/2022 3:45 PM, ToddAndMargo via curl-users wrote:
>> Fedora 36
>> curl-7.82.0-7.fc36.x86_64
>>
>> On the following web site
>>
>> https://github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases
>> view-source:https://github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases
>>
>> There is a button called "Show all 50 assets".
>>
>> <button type="button" data-view-component="true"
>> class="js-release-asset-untruncate-btn btn-link">    Show all 50 assets
>>
>> But I can not get this extra list with curl -- only
>> with Firefox.  And when I click on it with Firefox,
>> the URL does not change.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> It's javascript that retrieves a separate html page [1] with all the
> assets. Also you can see all the assets on the release page for that tag
> [2]. If I were you I would parse the json from github's api [3] instead
> of trying to parse the html.
>
> curl -fLsS
> "https://api.github.com/repos/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases/latest" | jq
> --raw-output ".id | select(type == \"number\")"
>
> curl -fLsS
> "https://api.github.com/repos/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases/68967516/assets"
> | jq ".[].browser_download_url | select(type == \"string\")"
>
> [1]: https://github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases/expanded_assets/v2022.06
> [2]: https://github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases/v2022.06
> [3]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/assets
>

Thank you!

I did figure out a way around it.



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Received on 2022-09-17