Does Obtainium run JS and will it in the future?

[ghost]

I'm considering disabling JavaScript on my phone due to concerns about getting fingerprinted but I wanted to check if my use of Obtainium would run JavaScript from github/gitlab/etc on my phone. If it doesn't currently is there any future plans to implement JS without first notifying the user or making it opt in?

I've found a post from 2024 with a comment from imranr saying Obtainium doesn't support running JS but that doesn't fully answer my question and could be outdated

[deminearchiver]

Obtainium may use the WebView technology, if enabled in settings or per app. Pages of affected apps display the webpage at the source URL.

Apart from that, Obtainium only performs fetch requests and doesn't execute any JavaScript.

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure my answer is accurate.

[MarkyMarkDE]

Obtainium may use the WebView technology, if enabled in settings or per app. Pages of affected apps display the webpage at the source URL.

Apart from that, Obtainium only performs fetch requests and doesn't execute any JavaScript.

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure my answer is accurate.

WebView isn't a active selectable rendering source, it is a rendering in most Apps, so this technology is wide available.

[deminearchiver]

WebView isn't a active selectable rendering source, it is a rendering in most Apps, so this technology is wide available.

Now that I think of it, why would someone want to disable JavaScript on their phone out of all things? Maybe they meant in the browser? I might be stupid after that. I may have misunderstood the question.

[MarkyMarkDE]

WebView isn't a active selectable rendering source, it is a rendering in most Apps, so this technology is wide available.

Now that I think of it, why would someone want to disable JavaScript on their phone out of all things? Maybe they meant in the browser? I might be stupid after that. I may have misunderstood the question.

Nobody knows what the poster really mean, without any explanation, we fish in fork 😉

[krotname]

A precise reading of current code: update checking/parsing itself does not run site JavaScript. The source paths fetch HTML/JSON and parse links, for example in lib/app_sources/html.dart using package:http plus html/parser.dart.

There is one important exception: the app detail page can load the source URL in a webview_flutter WebView. In lib/pages/app.dart, the controller is created with:

setJavaScriptMode(JavaScriptMode.unrestricted)

and later calls:

loadRequest(Uri.parse(app.app.url))

So the distinction is:

• background/update checks: HTTP fetch + parsing, no page JavaScript execution;
• built-in source webpage view: yes, it is a real WebView and JavaScript is allowed.

The setting label is Show source webpage in app view. If your goal is strict no-JS browsing, avoid opening that view / disable that preference. For complete assurance it would be worth asking for a setting to make the WebView use JavaScriptMode.disabled, because the current code does not expose a JS toggle.

I cannot speak for future changes, but based on current code any JS support would be visible in a dependency/code change around webview_flutter or that setting.