Hey. Ok, so, I http-get'd a javascript file from a website.

It's got all sorts of functions in it, and one of those functions has a dictionary variable with lots of valuable information.

e.g.



What would ya'll say is the best way to get the contents of that dictionary variable into my own variable?

I really don't want to just parse it and finangle it into a json and then into a variable, but I will if I have to...

if it's a one-time thing, just copy-paste it. if the data is static in the file (but might change daily), it might be simpler for you to regex it out as a string then use JSON.parse since you dont need any other functions to execute.

if it's a complex script, you can always append your own function to return it and eval it. but eval'ing someone else's unknown code doesn't sound like a great idea.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Feb 18 2016 09:11pm

Yeah, we actually don't have access to edit it, unfortunately. Otherwise I totally would just throw my own function in there.

Ok, I'll just regex it. Thanks!

var yourvar = dictionary