Getting Final HTML with Javascript rendered Java as String

java, javascript, web-scraping

Solution

Use phantomjs: http://phantomjs.org

var page = require('webpage').create();
page.open("http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/rowdy-rathore-movie-review-cheers-for-rowdy-akki-051207.asp")
setTimeout(function(){
    // Where you want to save it    
    page.render("screenshoot.png")  
    // You can access its content using jQuery
    var fbcomments = page.evaluate(function(){
        return $(".fb-comments iframe").contents().find(".postContainer") 
    }) 
},10000)

You have to use the option in phantom `--web-security=no` to allow cross-domain interaction (ie for facebook iframe)

To communicate with other applications from phantomjs you can use a web server or make a POST request: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/examples/post.js

Problem

I want to fetch data from an HTML page(scrape it). But it contains reviews in javascript. In normal java url fetch I am only getting the HTML(actual one) without Javascript executed. I want the final page with Javascript executed. Example :- http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/rowdy-rathore-movie-review-cheers-for-rowdy-akki-051207.asp This page has comments as a facebook plugin which are fetched as Javascript. Also similar to this even on this. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/reviews What should I do?

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