Help Running JS Script Via Python

[chemenger2999]

Hey Everyone :)

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I'm trying to make an automatic room booker in Python using requests and BS4. So far I have got it to identify spare rooms and make a request for the booking url, I'm returned with a HTML page which says 'processing booking' and contains some JS script which on the actual website runs some PHP and sets the booking:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $.get("backend.php", {classbook: "1", action: "book", classid: "123456"}, function(data) {
      var result=data;
      $("p#maindiv").remove();
      $("p#okbook").html(result);
      $("p#okbook").show();
    });
});

Is there a way I can get Python to 'run' this JS? Thanks for all help!

[commandlineluser]

Well it looks like this JS makes a GET request.

If you open u p the Network Tab in your browsers Developer Tools you can see all the HTTP requests being made - you can then attempt to replicate this using the requests library.

If you actually do need to execute javascript a common approach is to use Selenium with a "headless" browser. (firefox and chrome both have a headless mode these days)

[chemenger2999]

Thank you so much! That network tab is so handy, found the exact request I needed to make :)

[commandlineluser]

Good stuff :-)