WebKit API for DOM

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Does WebKit expose an API for working directly with its DOM? I'm looking for a class like HtmlElement that can be used to build/traverse trees of HTML content.

I'm trying to host WebKit as a web browser control in a desktop application, and would prefer a direct API rather than going through COM. Thanks!

Thanks!

Why don't you merge this with the other thread of yours i.e. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/563996/gecko-api-for-dom? Change the heading, to [X API for DOM]. — dirkgently, Feb 19 '09 at 08:23

Luca Tettamanti · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-14T12:04:46.227

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Using QT/WebKit (at least version 4.6) it's now possible to access the DOM of the loaded document.

QtWebKit Module reference

DOM Traversal Example

edited Feb 14 '13 at 12:04

answered Dec 10 '09 at 21:54

Luca Tettamanti

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I've updated the URL, and added a direct link to sample code, thanks. – Luca Tettamanti Feb 14 '13 at 12:08
The links are dead again, sorry. Here's the GTK version: https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/index.html – John P Aug 12 '17 at 17:11

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '09 at 09:26

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Following URL has some interesting answer to you.

Where is WebKIT API?

answered Feb 19 '09 at 09:26

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by taking the source code and compiling it, of course - how else? sorry, but this is a silly question, jen :) – user362834 Oct 09 '10 at 18:44

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 09 '11 at 15:49

you have a limited number of options, via the various DOM wrappers. the PyWebkitQt one is truly rubbish; the Objective-C one is only available on MacOSX (and is again limited and incomplete); the COM one is only available on windows; the GObject one is still under development even though the first version that was created in 2008 was superior and more feature-complete than what's actually now in webkit mainline source code; there are also some c++ bindings but i have not evaluated them. and then of course there's also the Javascript bindings and the google V8 javascript bindings (yes they're separate) but those are only available "in-browser".

that pretty much leaves the pythonwebkit project - http://www.gnu.org/software/pythonwebkit - as the only non-javascript-based DOM manipulation API that actually aims for full de-facto standards compliance, making python truly a peer of javascript when it comes to DOM manipulation.

WebKit API for DOM

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