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With a minute's searching, here's a webpage that's meaningless without JavaScript: https://blogger.googleblog.com/ https://blogger.googleblog.com/ It's arguab

With a minute's searching, here's a webpage that's meaningless without JavaScript: https://blogger.googleblog.com/ https://blogger.googleblog.com/ It's arguably a page of text not a web app that needs user interaction. I'm not trying to start an argument about JS: the consensus on HN seems to be that if you don't execute JavaScript you don't deserve to read webpages. I'm just saying that your website's clients are more diverse than 'normal' well-sighted humans. There may be machines reading the site, for all kinds of reasons. And regarding endpoints. One could make the argument that with AJAX we now have richer APIs. I disagree. We have a well-understood API for getting hypertext (HTTP) in a well-understood format (HTML) that works/worked across all websites. Replacing that with a custom-built API for every website isn't apples-for-apples.

feelin_googley 9y ago
The reason I asked is that I rarely use a graphical browser so I am always curious about wesbites that are inaccessible without Javascript. Blogger has a feed. Here is one way to retrieve it, in two steps. 1. get TargetBlogID 2. retrieve data optional: 3. format data for viewing Example: 1. x=$(exec curl https://blogger.googleblog.com \ |exec sed ' s/\\046/\&/g; s/\\46/\&/g; s/\\075/=/g; s/\\75/=/g; /targetBlogID/!d; s/.*targetBlogID=//; s/&.*//; '); 2. curl -o y.htm https://www.blogger.com/feeds/$x/posts/default 3. exec sed ' # ^M is "\r" s/^[0-9a-f]*^M//; s/</</g; s/>/>/g; s/&/\&/g; s/"/\"/g; 1i\ s/<name>/ name &/g; s/<uri>/ uri &/g; s/<generator>/ generator &/g; s/Blogger//; s/<id>/ id &/g; s/<published>/ published &/g; s/<email>/ email &/g; s/<title type=.text.>/ &/g; s/<openSearch:totalResults>/ total results &/g; s/<openSearch:startIndex>/ start index &/g; s/<openSearch:itemsPerPage>/ items per page &/g; s/<updated>/ updated &/g; s/<thr:total>/ thr:total &/g; s/<\/feed>/& /; s/^M*/ /; ' y.htm \ |exec tr -cd '\12\40-\176'
- always_good 9y ago
 It's almost like you asked that question to bait someone into giving you an excuse to show "just how easy it is" with some cli hacking.
- dchuk 9y ago
 Just 3 easy steps

feelin_googley 9y ago

The reason I asked is that I rarely use a graphical browser so I am always curious about wesbites that are inaccessible without Javascript. Blogger has a feed. Here is one way to retrieve it, in two steps. 1. get TargetBlogID 2. retrieve data optional: 3. format data for viewing Example: 1. x=$(exec curl https://blogger.googleblog.com \ |exec sed ' s/\\046/\&/g; s/\\46/\&/g; s/\\075/=/g; s/\\75/=/g; /targetBlogID/!d; s/.*targetBlogID=//; s/&.*//; '); 2. curl -o y.htm https://www.blogger.com/feeds/$x/posts/default 3. exec sed ' # ^M is "\r" s/^[0-9a-f]*^M//; s/</</g; s/>/>/g; s/&/\&/g; s/"/\"/g; 1i\ s/<name>/ name &/g; s/<uri>/ uri &/g; s/<generator>/ generator &/g; s/Blogger//; s/<id>/ id &/g; s/<published>/ published &/g; s/<email>/ email &/g; s/<title type=.text.>/ &/g; s/<openSearch:totalResults>/ total results &/g; s/<openSearch:startIndex>/ start index &/g; s/<openSearch:itemsPerPage>/ items per page &/g; s/<updated>/ updated &/g; s/<thr:total>/ thr:total &/g; s/<\/feed>/& /; s/^M*/ /; ' y.htm \ |exec tr -cd '\12\40-\176'

always_good 9y ago
It's almost like you asked that question to bait someone into giving you an excuse to show "just how easy it is" with some cli hacking.
dchuk 9y ago
Just 3 easy steps