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I am trying to scrape a web site using python and beautiful soup. I encountered that in some sites, the image links although seen on the browser is cannot be seen in the source code. However on using Chrome Inspect or Fiddler, we can see the the corresponding codes. What I see in the source code is:
<div id="cntnt"></div> But on Chrome Inspect, I can see a whole bunch of HTML\CSS code generated within this div class. Is there a way to load the generated content also within python? I am using the regular urllib in python and I am able to get the source but without the generated part.
I am not a web developer hence I am not able to express the behaviour in better terms. Please feel free to clarify if my question seems vague !
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Now, provide the url which we want to open in that web browser now controlled by our Python script. Now, we can use ID of the search toolbox for setting the element to select. driver. find_element_by_id('search_term').
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You need JavaScript Engine to parse and run JavaScript code inside the page. There are a bunch of headless browsers that can help you
http://code.google.com/p/spynner/
http://phantomjs.org/
http://zombie.labnotes.org/
http://github.com/ryanpetrello/python-zombie
http://jeanphix.me/Ghost.py/
http://webscraping.com/blog/Scraping-JavaScript-webpages-with-webkit/
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