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JavaScript is the common name for the language initially used for scripting in web browsers. It is NOT the same as Java. Use this tag for questions regarding ECMAScript and its dialects/implementations (excluding ActionScript and JScript).

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UPDATE learning that application/javascript has been deprecated, this has now been updated to read: text/javascript. Issue persists. I have verified that this is not an actual 404. a file of that ...
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I have a Spotify player in JavaScript that I need to run headless in Raspian Bookworm on a RPi5. I am controlling the player using the spotipy module in python. I have both nginx and gunicorn running ...
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After extracting the file contents from the phantomjs archive, I ran the command phantomjs and was met with the error: phantomjs: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared ...
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I need to compare two "minimised", very similar JavaScript files. Minimisation means that (among other things) newline and space characters that are not needed for interpretation by a ...
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I have a Dell, debian stable, laptop working with gnome environment. For several weeks Firefox crashed more and more often, resulting in mouse slows down during fews seconds, and then everything ...
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I’m trying to figure out if I’m able to port a webassembly based webapplication to QNX. But it is hard to find any information about what versions of browsers and web engine libraries that are shipped ...
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I am trying to run Plarium Play with wine, but have encountered an odd issue. When trying to launch it from a regular desktop entry, I get this JavaScript error: This does not happen if I launch from ...
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Is the linux kernel or at least part of it been ported to JavaScript yet ? I want to program on linux kernel but don't want to use c.
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EDIT on 13-11-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY) to clarify things a bit: I, a human, want to simply read the text contents of a website, which happens to be protected by CloudFlare protection. Yes, I know that such a ...
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I'm trying to figure out how, from a linux shell, to extract the links from a webpage in which the links appear only after clicking a button on the webpage, for example the "Assets" in ...
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Just as LibreOffice is the current parallel to Microsoft Office and just as GIMP is the current parallel to Adobe Photoshop, what is the *nix parallel to Microsoft front page (HTML page builder)? Can ...
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I'm currently working on a project that has a legacy system, unique product, and unique webstore which can't really be changed or updated at the moment. I've programed a bash script to check the ...
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What I want is to query metallum to obtain a plain list of songs that contain x word, let's say spider, so the query for the browser would be https://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=spider&...
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We have some homebrewn applications running in top of a Xubuntu 18.04 OS, communicating with each other using D-Bus. The UI part is run in a web browser and web socket is being used for the ...
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I've configure a cron task for running a NodeJS script everyday. crontab -l # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron. # # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line # ...
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I am using Manjaro and have downloaded google-chrome-stable from the AUR package. Even though google chrome is set as a default browser, npm start still defaults to opening firefox, after I deleted ...
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I have a script that runs at boot and every 1 min after. This is a nodeJS script that executes a nightmare/cheerio to scrape a cricket site for scores. This script itself runs until killed when ...
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Variables and procedures in JavaScript are often named via the "camelCase" naming method, as: myVariable Any letter of the only or not-only-but first letter in an expression which acts as ...
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Our company have a webpage dedicated to processing costs information for our customers locally on their machines via Javascript code. In the past, this processing was sequential, which could easily ...
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I have the following code to download a specific part (range) of a video using nodejs http.get(), const fileUrl = 'https://www.example.com/path/to/video.mp4' const fs = require('fs') const http = ...
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I accidentally deleted two Firefox files (recovery.js and recovery.bak) that contained the details of a huge number of tabs that I have open when I use Firefox. The tabs (website information) are ...
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I'd been using Prey Project on and off for years, and I just realized it wasn't working. So I'm trying to re-initialize my setup ... Since I'm running Slackware and not Ubuntu, it refuses to run: ...
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I tried to install Java 8 in addition to Java 11 on my VPS. Apparently that was only moderately successful. It is displayed under "java -version". And also with "sudo update-...
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I'm wanting to check if files are more than 50% commented out with javascript style commenting of //. My idea is to count the number of lines in the file and then count the number of // and do some ...
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i'm trying to script a bash script which automatically can download video or audio files, maybe even "playlists" from youtube and other platforms like this. Especially the youtube video file ...
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How do I find the exact installed version of a package from package.json in an express application in a Fedora distribution? I could look through package-lock.json but are there an easier way, as it'...
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In Node.js I can get the number of a columns of a terminal window using: const cols = process.stdout.columns; if the user shrinks the terminal during the process, the number of columns should shrink ...
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I think it would be awesome if we could render and also interact with html and javascript in a terminal. The idea is to render buttons and other interactive widgets like file trees in the command line,...
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I have a csv file with a bunch of numbers ranging from 500 to 500,000 and would like to replace the matches with 1 and mismatches by shifting the mismatched content to right simultaneously shifting ...
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I have a small issue on my server. Javascript *.js files in a certain folder don't update. I mean, files update but in the browser, I see the old version. I have installed a new browser on my ...
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What JavaScript interpreter does Polkit use to interpret rules.d files? The source code at time of writing links to a defuct Wikipedia heading "ECMAScript.2C_5th_Edition", however that would only be ...
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I need to convert a CSV file to a JSON output, I'm using the csvtojason library from https://www.npmjs.com/package/csvtojson, csv File: mode,device,stb,data,data1,data2,data3,data4 modelo1,device1,...
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I have installed yarn - Node.js package manager (alternative to npm): $ sudo apt install yarnpkg ... $ dpkg -l | grep yarn ii yarnpkg 1.13.0-1 all ...
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polkit is configured using rules files, written in javascript. You write custom functions, and pass them as the argument to polkit.addRule(). When a polkit action is performed, the functions are ...
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I get a long list of such arrays { "id": "byu6g6c4cjys5mdkg5znh8ju8c", "create_at": 1511875272294, "update_at": 1511875272294, "delete_at": 0, "display_name": "BMA", "name": "...
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I have web pages on Ubuntu that return the lastModified date as part of the displayed text using javascript to create the following: Last modified: 08/28/2017 That's the actual last-modified date of ...
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user 1550 1 0 Jun19 ? 00:00:00 node /usr/bin/nodemon src/server.js user 11051 1550 0 Jun19 ? 00:00:38 /usr/bin/node src/server.js Can someone tell how this process running in ...
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I installed the NetBeans Connector plugin to Chromium on my MacBook. That worked perfectly. I could create new projects in HTML5/Javascript. I tried to do the same on my Linux Mint 18.3 computer. But ...
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An extension I'm working on is having severe performance issues, causing the screen or gnome to freeze and other issues. I'd like to fix it, but I have no idea how or where to start. Is there a way ...
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I'm using ubuntu server (only terminal) and I have a javascript that must be run from a specific website (to avoid cross-domain issues). Basicly I would follow this steps if I were in a convencional ...
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I use Ubuntu with Bash and I have a file hosting a script with 5 functions. Sometimes I want to call some function of these functions (but not all of them), directly from the CLI. I could say it's ...
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So I am trying to compile a .java file in my vim script but it keeps giving the error "could not find or load main class name.java" while I have put a main class in my .java file`, can someane help me ...
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When I try fetch v8 or gclient sync I get this error: Error: Command 'download_from_google_storage --no_resume --platform=linux* --no_auth --bucket chromium-clang-format -s v8/buildtools/linux64/...
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I would like Firefox (the new super fast Quantum with low memory usage) to open some URLs in a special/popup window, i.e. almost without anything (toolbar, menu bar, tab bar, address bar, etc.) other ...
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On https://www.meinfluessiggas.de one has to click a tank size button (section “Behältergröße”) and fill in a postal code (section “PLZ Behälterstandort”) for the price to appear on the right. I want ...
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For the last year, I have been a happy user of KDE Plasma 5. KDE widgets, however, make me miss more directly programmable systems such as conky. Setting up an ad-hoc monitor for anything that needs ...
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I need to convert a username and password combination into base64 before sending to an API. The javascript BTOA function is working for me, but when I try to use base64 command in bash I get slightly ...
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In am running Chromium 57.0.2987.133 in FreeBSD 12-CURRENT with the Lumina desktop interface, in a Lenovo Ideapad with a Celeron N3050. I also set in /etc/sysctl.conf as recommended: kern.ipc....
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Hi guys:) I am using a Beagle Bone Black with Debian Wheezy to make a project. I have a small problem:I have my index.php in /var/www from there I call a python file called send_email.php using ajax: ...
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I use Firefox and I don't have any issues viewing and reading English text on the loaded websites. If I click Save in Firefox and save the web page in question as a text file I can read everything in ...
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