How to run a python script from javascript?

Question

So I'm making a javascript discord bot, if's that's relevant at all.

I made a python script that scrapes one website and return a json object.

How can I make a javascript function that runs the python script, and stores the json object, in order for me to access it's content?

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

You might consider looking at Node.js's Child Process API to spawn and control a Python process. Here's a modified code snippet from the documentation that executes a Python script, collects it's output on standard out while it runs, and parses its output as JSON when the script exits.

const { spawn } = require('child_process');
const script = spawn('python', ['/path/to/script.py']);
const chunks = [];

// there is a data chunk from the script available to read
script.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
    chunks.push(data)
});

// no more data left to read, parse our JSON object
script.stdout.on('end', () => {
    let output_buf = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    let object = JSON.parse(output_buf.toString());
    ...
});