PyMiniRacer
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| PyMiniRacer | tube-get | |
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| 4 | 1 | |
| 692 | 7 | |
| 2.9% | - | |
| 3.7 | 10.0 | |
| 5 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Python | Python | |
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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
tube-get
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YouTube-dl has a JavaScript interpreter written in 870 lines of Python
To understand why, I have a far simpler tool that focuses on a subset of sites (adult content video aggregators)
https://github.com/kristopolous/tube-get
It too deals with this problem but does so in a way that'd be easy to maliciously sabotage
Look right about here https://github.com/kristopolous/tube-get/blob/master/tube-ge...
Add to why this exists, this was originally written between about 2010-2015 or so so it technically predates the yt-* ecosystem.
The tool still works fine and it's not a strict subset of yt-dlp or YouTube-dl because being a different approach, although it's overall site coverage is smaller, I've had it be a "second try" system when yt-* fails and it comes up with success maybe about half the time
What are some alternatives?
quickjs - Thin Python wrapper of https://bellard.org/quickjs/
mini_racer - Minimal embedded v8
dukpy - Simple JavaScript interpreter for Python
pyduktape - Embed the Duktape JS interpreter in Python
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
libv8-node - Package libv8 from Node
InsideReCaptcha - Reverse-engineering the new “captchaless” ReCaptcha system...