Extract URLs from JavaScript source page

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I am writing a web crawler. It works correctly except the websites which use JavaScript instead of using HTML tags (a href). How can I solve this problem to be able to access all URLs in a website?

Thank you very much in advance.

Posted 15-Jun-10 8:51am

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Updated 17-Jun-10 10:45am

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Adrabi Abderrahim · Answer 1 · 2010-06-16T06:10:00

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Maybe you need to parse JS source to get variables values and strings that contents urls or try to use regex for searching urls in strings.
maybe this can't be perfect if urls is encoded by using JS. but =) you decode it

try : http://timwhitlock.info/plug/examples/JavaScript/JParser.php

Posted 16-Jun-10 6:10am

Adrabi Abderrahim