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Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) by tantalor on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @10:25AM (#37049429)
> These properties were chosen manually by working backward from the visible data on the web page to the data structure containing said data (I'll dive into that process in another blog post)

That would seem to be the actually interesting/challenging part.

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Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) by jackbeck on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:50PM (#37051931)
I would assume that you could just search the heap by the value shown on the page to find out what the key is.
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Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) by ricklamers on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:25PM (#37056811)
Using introspection tools like queryObjects in Chrome Dev Tools should get you quite far:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/utilities...

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