https://github.com/nisaacson/get-view-state

Extract the view state value from an html page parsed with [cheerio](https://github.com/MatthewMueller/cheerio)
https://github.com/nisaacson/get-view-state

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Extract the view state value from an html page parsed with [cheerio](https://github.com/MatthewMueller/cheerio)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nisaacson/get-view-state
• Owner: nisaacson
• Created: 2013-04-18T18:54:47.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-04-18T19:08:46.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-02T21:19:00.649Z (4 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 145 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# Get View State

Extract the view state value from an html page parsed with [cheerio](https://github.com/MatthewMueller/cheerio)

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# Installation

```bash

npm install -S get-view-state

```

# Usage

```js

var inspect = require('eyespect').inspector();

var cheerio = require('cheerio')

var getViewState = require('get-view-state')

// file path to a webpage with a view state element in the html

var filePath = path.join(__dirname, 'data/yesViewState.html') 

var html = fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8')

var $ = cheerio.load(html)

// extract the value attribute from the view state element

var viewState = getViewState($)

inspect(viewState, 'extracted view state')

```