On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 05:13:57 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jaiprakash Singh >> <jaiprak...@wisepromo.com> wrote: >>> hi, >>> >>> can you please suggest me some method for study so that i can >>> scrap a site having JavaScript behind it >>> >>> >>> i have tried selenium, ghost, pyQt4, but it is slow and as a am >>> working with thread it sinks my ram memory very fast. >> >> Do you mean "scrape"? You're trying to retrieve the displayed contents >> of a web page that uses JavaScript? If so, that's basically impossible >> without actually executing the JS code, which means largely replicating >> the web browser. > > Oh, you think he meant scrape? I thought he was trying to scrap (as in > throw away / replace) an old javascript heavy website with something > using python instead.
I thought so too at first, but since we had another recent case of someone confusing the two words, and since "scrape" would make sense in this context, I figured it'd be worth asking the question. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list