Re: [Bug-wget] Wget not finding image references in javascript source

[Darshit Shah]

Hi Zane,

The question of supporting links and images emebdded via javascript props up 
fairly often. JS is a dynamic scripting language and the code path taken 
depends on the user's interaction with the page. To simulate this, we would 
need a full JS engine inside of Wget. Apart from being large and clumsy this 
would also be impossible for us to maintain. As a result, we do not and have no 
plans to support parsing JS code in Wget in the near future.

If you have any ideas that would help implement this without needing a full JS 
engine, do let us know. We'd be interested in hearing and evaluating new 
options.

On 02/29, Zane Staggs wrote:
> It seems wget ignores image paths that exist in javascript source like
> in a simple path string like "/path/to/my/image.jpg".  I realize it's
> probably not easy to do parse every js string for an image path but
> wondering if there are ways to make it work or plans to implement it.
> I got around it for now by creating a dummy hidden img element with
> the src so wget could find it in the dom.  Thanks.

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

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