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Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page

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On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:43:35 GMT
Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some code which parses the source of pages for youtube videos and
> prints some information. My code has been working fine for months but
> recently it choked on  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ .After
> some investigations I found the part of the page which causes the problem :
> there is a single appearance of
> 
>     content="\Raffaello D&#39;Andrea\"
> 
> .My code assumed that the closing double quote is escaped so it did not count
> it as a closing quote and so parsed incorrectly the rest of the page.

I note that if I remove the 2nd backslash , my code can parse the page
correctly. Also , there are other appearances of the 2 character sequence  \"
on the page and for those the  "  is indeed escaped. So a different way to
approach my problem is to come up with an algorithm which decides when  \"
denotes an escaped double quote and when it doesn't. Ideally , I'm looking
for a solution which does not involve writing a full parser for HTML ,
Javascript , JSON and who knows what else is on such pages.

> So I have 2 questions :
> 
> 1. Is the above segment valid according to whatever the relevant specification
> is ?
> 
> 2. My code only needs to parse the JSON content of pages and extract the
> information I want. Is there a simple algorithm which strips all the non JSON
> content of a page ? Or alternatively , is there an algorithm which parses
> correctly constructs like the above , perhaps taking into account surrounding
> tags ?

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features, even if it becomes an obstacle to building a critical 
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Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 14:43 +0000
  Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 16:43 +0000
    Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-02-27 14:30 -0500
      Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 20:30 +0000
        Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-27 21:42 +0000
          Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2021-02-28 21:02 +0000
            Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-28 23:55 +0000
              Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2021-03-02 18:51 +0000
                Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Kristjan Robam <he12457@hotmail.com> - 2021-03-02 17:50 -0800
  Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-02-27 14:09 -0500
    Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 20:12 +0000
      Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-02-27 22:18 -0500
        Re: Advice needed on parsing a youtube page Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2021-03-02 17:30 +0000

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