DOMdb

An in-memory datastore leveraging the powerful V8 engine and python

Warning: This project is a joke

This project won the "Hacking Stupid" category during Aarhack in November 2019, an event hosted by Destination AARhus

Getting started

Installing

1. Install Chrome and the ChromeDriver (can be found here)
2. Put the ChromeDriver in your PATH
3. Install Python 3.5+ (has only been tested with Python 3.8)
4. Install the python dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the project

There is a demo included in the code. This can be run with

python domdb.py --debug --demo

(This project is most fun when run with --debug as you can see the browser we use to store data in)

Cool commands to try in the REPL:

TABle("tablename")  -- opens a new TABle or navigates to an existing TABle
insert({"anything": "goes here"})  -- inserts data into the database
delete_object("domXXXXXXX")  -- deletes a document from the database
snapshot("saveto.png", pixelbytes=3000)  -- create a snapshot of 3000 pixelbytes
DOMp("saveto.html") -- DOMps the database to a file
TABle("restored", seedpath="saveto.html") -- restore a database from a DOMp file
query('p[type="string"]')  -- query the database, this one selects all primitives of type string (play around with CSS selectors here)
pquery("div[id]")  -- like query, but instead of returning the result it pretty-prints it