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Get information from a Ghost.py file

i am doing a project in which i need to get the information from webpages. i am using python and ghost for it. i saw this code in the documentation:

links = gh.evaluate("""
                    var linksobj = document.querySelectorAll("a");
                    var links = [];
                    for (var i=0; i<linksobj.length; i++){
                        links.push(linksobj[i].value);
                    }
                    links;
                """)

this code is definitely not python. which language is it and where i can learn how to configure it? how can find a string from the tags eg. in: 

title>this is title of the webpage
how can i get

this is title of the page

thanks.

Solution

  • ghost.py is a webkit client. It allows you to load a web page and interact with its DOM and runtime.

    This means that once you have everything installed and running, you can simply do this:

    from ghost import Ghost
ghost = Ghost()
page, resources = ghost.open('http://stackoverflow.com/')
if page.http_status == 200:
    result, extra = ghost.evaluate('document.title;')
    print('The title is: {}'.format(result))