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I need to get the contents of a website through PHP, however, the content is only available when JavaScript is enabled. The workaround that I am using now is making an applescript to open the website in Safari, and selecting all of the page content, copying it to the clipboard, and pasting it.
best possible solution: ask the website owner for api/export access 😉
If that is not possible, you can only pray that you can analyze the requests that are initialized via JavaScript and imitate them.
(possible tools: firefox with firebug or tamper data plugin).
Warning the owner of the website might not like this approach, in fact, it may be disallowed to scrape the data automatically