Extract data between script tags

[doubledecker]

Hi Monks

I am trying to parse data from a HTML page where in it contains data between <script> tags. Is there any module available to parse text between script tags. Any help is appreciated.

[AppleFritter]

By "parse data", do you mean you want to extract the contents of those script tags from your HTML page, or do you want to parse the code (Javascript, I assume) they contain?

If the former, take a look at HTML::TreeBuilder. If the latter, JE can apparently parse Javascript and return a parse tree.

BTW, searching CPAN will often find useful modules. Did you try it?

[NetWallah]

If script extraction is the only thing you need to do, this regex should do the job:

my @Extracted_scripts =  $HTML_string =~/<script>(.+?)<\/script>/sig;

For anything more complex, use HTML::TreeBuilder or derivatives , or HTML::SimpleParse.

[Anonymous Monk]

XML::LibXML...findnodes( "//script" ) ...$node->textContent, HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath...findnodes( "//script" )...innerHTML... xpather.pl/htmltreexpather.pl

sub HTML::Element::innerHTML {
    my( $self ) = @_;
    return join '', map { ref $_? $_->as_HTML : $_ } $self->content_li
+st;
}

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