REPL DOMTools

repl-domtools - A browser free DevTools playground for your command line.

Use the JavaScript you're used to with DevTools to without the overhead of a browser, utilising the power of Node's REPL.

Quickly create a blank DOM to play around with, or initialise the DOM from any website.

Usage

Installation

Install directly via NPM

npm install -g repl-domtools

Initialise an empty DOM

This will quickly create a very basic DOM for you to play around with.

domtools

Initialise DOM from a URL

Initialise the DOM from any website, including parsing JavaScript and linked resources.

domtools --url https://defaced.dev/

Additional Commands

Visualise the structure of the DOM for a given node.

dom.tree(document)

Save the modified DOM to a file

dom.save('index.html')

Return the DOM as a string

dom.raw()

Examples

Run third party scripts

domtools --url https://defaced.dev/
REPL DOMTools v0.0.1 - Chris Johnson / @defaced
Initialising DOM from https://defaced.dev/
DOM initialised
> window.ga.getAll()[0].get('name')
'gtag_UA_166309081_1'
> 

Use additional Node pacakges

This uses unfluff to extract the article data from a website, before utilising the sentiment library to calculate the sentiment of an article.

domtools --url https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/25/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-head-scratchingly-ambitious
REPL DOMTools v0.0.1 - Chris Johnson / @defaced
Initialising DOM from https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/25/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-head-scratchingly-ambitious
DOM initialised
> data = require('unfluff')(dom.raw())
> const Sentiment = require('sentiment')
> const sentiment = new Sentiment()
> sentiment.analyze(data.text)
{
  score: 17,
  comparative: 0.022696929238985315,
  ...
}
>

Changelog

1.0.0

- All the changes.

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Contact

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