how to execute javascript on a website using python

Asked Jul 23 '22 at 11:31

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I'm trying to connect to a website (for example this facebook group) and execute two functions every 5 minutes:

window.scrollBy(0, 6000)

on 7 top posts:

let event = new FocusEvent('focusin', {
   'view': window,
   'bubbles': true,
   'cancelable': true
});
post.dispatchEvent(event);

Get the webpage content

Ofcourse the first thing that comes in mind is selenium, but the problem is that selenium is very heavy on my pc and I'm running this script on a very old pc that it takes too much time to execute.
I was wondering if I can perform that without the need of automating an actual browser, maybe using a library like requests or websockets to connect to the website and pass some javascript to it (I was able to perform the third point easily with requests.get(url).content but the first 2 is the problem)

asked Jul 23 '22 at 11:31

user2401856

JavaScript is executed by the browser. So... – Andreas Jul 23 '22 at 11:33
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You need selenium for this. – Barry the Platipus Jul 23 '22 at 11:37
@platipus_on_fire_333 any lighter package alternative? my hardware is so poor – user2401856 Jul 23 '22 at 11:38
Asking for recommendations is off-topic – Andreas Jul 23 '22 at 11:39
People are running selenium (headless, of course) on raspberry pi 2/3. I suspect you will be just fine. – Barry the Platipus Jul 23 '22 at 11:54
Try to use htmlunit browser with javascript. – MeT Jul 23 '22 at 13:30
You can run selenium headless on colab – Himanshu Poddar Jul 23 '22 at 13:42
yup selenium can be run on colab https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53532060/webdriverexception-message-service-content-chromedriver-unexpectedly-exited/53590694#53590694 – Himanshu Poddar Jul 23 '22 at 14:58

how to execute javascript on a website using python

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