Re: How to parse JavaScript from Zsh?

[Thiago Padilha <tpadilha84@xxxxxxxxx>]

Parsing a complex language like javascript is not the job for a shell
language

Perhaps they are sending just JSON and you mistake with javascript? If its
just json you can try this https://github.com/micha/jsawk it targets bash
but should work with zsh.


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:52 PM, TJ Luoma <luomat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Long story short… my home network is satellite Internet. It has a
> 20gb/month quota (not a typo). I used to be able to parse the output
> of http://192.168.0.1 using `lynx` but they üpgraded their system and
> now http://192.168.0.1 uses JavaScript to deliver the information.
>
> I can't figure out how to parse JavaScript from a Zsh script.
>
> Ok, I admit that this is skirting on the edge of Zsh here, but I've
> been googling for a couple hours and don't seem to be finding anything
> close to a solution. Maybe just haven't found the right keywords, but
> I'm getting a ton of unrelated crap.
>
> I'm guessing there's some tool out there like `lynx` or `wget` or
> `curl` which can parse JavaScript from the command line, but I can't
> find whatever it is.
>
> So I'm hoping maybe someone here has already reached the top of this
> mountain and can point me in the right direction.
>
> TjL
>