python regex: search for variable content inside javascript function

Question

I have a javascript string like given below

function() {window.__WML_REDUX_INITIAL_STATE__ = {"uuid":null,"isMobile":false,"isBot":false,"isAdsEnabled":true};}

I have to get contents of __WML_REDUX_INITIAL_STAET__ = whose content is json data so that I could parse the json further.

I'm, using following regex pattern

wml_redux_initial_state = re.findall('__WML_REDUX_INITIAL_STATE__ = (.*?);\s*$', redux, re.M)

But this is not working.

0of1 · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-29 04:39:50Z

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I don't know how specific your regex needs to be, but your current one isn't working because of the } after the ;....this works:

re.search(r'__WML_REDUX_INITIAL_STATE__ = (.*?);}\s*$', redux, re.M)

answered Jul 29, 2018 at 4:39

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but this search includes __WML_REDUX_INITIAL_STATE__ string too. I only want content within it.

Thanks, I used your regex string in findall and it's working

in my re.search it returns a match object which contains what you're looking for in the first group. You could access it by match.group(1).