PyMiniRacer
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| PyMiniRacer | vado | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | |
| 692 | 282 | |
| 2.9% | - | |
| 3.7 | 10.0 | |
| 4 days ago | about 5 years ago | |
| Python | Haskell | |
| ISC License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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PyMiniRacer
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YouTube-dl has a JavaScript interpreter written in 870 lines of Python
Embedding V8 can work quite well: https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer
You probably have to emulate some of the DOM, but you can interact directly with whatever obfuscated/packed scripts in a more lightweight and secure way than driving an entire browser.
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connecting languages
First learn what forms computer code can be in. Source code combine js and python or to combine c and C++ object code with a linker or at runtime if you want to shell out and run from the prompt
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Web Browser Engineering
If you want battle-hardened, I figure you can't do better than V8. Here's a Python wrapper that I've poked at a bit (it's not quite 100% feature-complete but it seems to essentially work): https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer
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What are some alternatives?
quickjs - Thin Python wrapper of https://bellard.org/quickjs/
dukpy - Simple JavaScript interpreter for Python
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
tube-get - A tube-site downloader
mini_racer - Minimal embedded v8
Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
libv8-node - Package libv8 from Node
pyduktape - Embed the Duktape JS interpreter in Python
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