xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token) python3?-CodePudding

I have this code on my python3 for E2 (dreambox)

from xml.dom import Node, minidom
from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
selectedserverurl = 'http://fairbird.liveblog365.com/TSpanel/TSipanel.xml'

def downloadxmlpage():
        req = Request(selectedserverurl)
        response = urlopen(req)
        data = response.read()
        response.close()
        print("data:",data)
        gotPageLoad(data)
        print("gotPageLoad(data):", gotPageLoad(data))

def gotPageLoad(data = None):
        if data != None:
            xmlparse = minidom.parseString(data)
            for plugins in xmlparse.getElementsByTagName('plugins'):
                item = plugins.getAttribute('cont')
                if 'TSpanel' in item:
                    for plugin in plugins.getElementsByTagName('plugin'):
                        tsitem = plugin.getAttribute('name')
                        print("tsitem:", tsitem)

downloadxmlpage()

I have try to read this file and extract the content from it http://fairbird.liveblog365.com/TSpanel/TSipanel.xml

But I have got this error !!

data: b'<html><body><script type="text/javascript" src="/aes.js" ></script><script>function toNumbers(d){var e=[];d.replace(/(..)/g,function(d){e.push(parseInt(d,16))});return e}function toHex(){for(var d=[],d=1==arguments.length&&arguments[0].constructor==Array?arguments[0]:arguments,e="",f=0;f<d.length;f  )e =(16>d[f]?"0":"") d[f].toString(16);return e.toLowerCase()}var a=toNumbers("f655ba9d09a112d4968c63579db590b4"),b=toNumbers("98344c2eee86c3994890592585b49f80"),c=toNumbers("55cc7e99e3f798b6063f25e8b0f8aa76");document.cookie="__test=" toHex(slowAES.decrypt(c,2,a,b)) "; expires=Thu, 31-Dec-37 23:55:55 GMT; path=/"; location.href="http://fairbird.liveblog365.com/TSpanel/TSipanel.xml?i=1";</script><noscript>This site requires Javascript to work, please enable Javascript in your browser or use a browser with Javascript support</noscript></body></html>'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/raed/Desktop/test.py", line 24, in <module>
    downloadxmlpage()
  File "/home/raed/Desktop/test.py", line 11, in downloadxmlpage
    gotPageLoad(data)
  File "/home/raed/Desktop/test.py", line 16, in gotPageLoad
    xmlparse = minidom.parseString(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 2000, in parseString
    return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 925, in parseString
    return builder.parseString(string)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 223, in parseString
    parser.Parse(string, True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 222

So How to solve this issue ?!!

CodePudding user response：

Your data output is HTML, not an XML file, therefore the parser is failing.

The HTML redirects to http://fairbird.liveblog365.com/TSpanel/TSipanel.xml?i=1 using Javascript, as shown - This site requires Javascript to work.

This is typically done to prevent anyone from scraping the page/server-files.