Retrieving how many active cameras through browser

[mrmisi]

Hey there.
I'm trying to retrieve how many active cameras (parsing "liveCameraCount" and "totalCameraCount") are running using this python script:

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib
import urllib2
import base64

url = "my.pc.ip.address:port"
username = "user"
password = "pass"

handle = urllib2.Request(url)
authheader =  "Basic %s" % base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))

data = urllib.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")

cameras = soup.findAll('span')
for span in cameras:
    print span.string


however, when it run it reply with:

None
None
ON

While it should be:

2
2
ON

Looking at the code:


Do you know why?

[dev]

The values for liveCameraCount and totalCameraCount are filled in by Javascript.

Take a look in all_cameras_control.js around lines 63 and 64:

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    $("#liveCameraCount").text(actualEnabledCameraCount);
    $("#totalCameraCount").text(liveCameras.length);


The values for "liveCameraCount" and "totalCameraCount" are blank until this javascript runs.