Dictionary within html code

ebolisa · Aug-09-2021, 09:01 AM

Hi,

I'd like to list all the visitors who have viewed my Facebook page. For that I use CTR-U to get to my page's HTML code and CTR-F to search for the text "buddy_id" or "name". Both are listed within a <script></script> code and in a dictionary format.

How to strip the html code and get directly to the dictionary content?
TIA

import json

filename = 'facebook.txt' # html code

try:
    with open(filename) as f:
        data = f.read()
    print("Data type before reconstruction : ", type(data))

    # reconstructing the data as a dictionary
    js = json.loads(data)
    print("Data type after reconstruction : ", type(js))
    print(js)
except Exception as e:
    print('Error msg: ', e)
    exit()  # or return #if an error, exit

**Larz60+** · Aug-09-2021, 10:15 AM

what does the HTML code look like?
please supply

ebolisa · Aug-09-2021, 10:44 AM

(Aug-09-2021, 10:15 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: what does the HTML code look like?
please supply

Hi, for privacy reasons, I cannot do that but it looks like a standard html code:

<!DOCTYPE html><html id="facebook" ....>
<head></head>
<body>
<script>requireLazy(...)</script>    <--- dictionary is here
</body></html>

This code got me closer once I stripped the html code manually:

import json

filename = 'facebook.txt' # html code

try:
    with open(filename) as f:
        data = f.read()
    print("Data type before reconstruction : ", type(data))

    # reconstructing the data as a dictionary
    js = json.loads(data)
    print("Data type after reconstruction : ", type(js))
    # print(js)
    for x in js[1]['__bbox']['result']['data']['viewer']['chat_sidebar_contact_rankings'][0]['user']:
        print(js[1]['__bbox']['result']['data']['viewer']['chat_sidebar_contact_rankings'][0]['user']['name'])

except Exception as e:
    print('Error msg: ', e)
    exit()  # or return #if an error, exit

ndc85430 · Aug-09-2021, 11:34 AM

Does Facebook not have an API endpoint you can use to get the page view data?

ebolisa · Aug-09-2021, 11:36 AM

(Aug-09-2021, 11:34 AM)ndc85430 Wrote: Does Facebook not have an API endpoint you can use to get the page view data?

I'm not familiar with it but will search. Thanks.

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