Incatchable errors

[akidee]

When scraping google.de, I get:

Error: Invalid character: Invalid character in tag name: ){
at Object.createElement (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/level1/core.js:1190:13)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:128:35)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at HtmlToDom.appendHtmlToElement (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:77:9)
at Object.innerHTML (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/index.js:420:27)
at Function.clean (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/deps/jquery-1.6.1.min.js:18:317)
at Function.buildFragment (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/deps/jquery-1.6.1.min.js:17:31854)
at [object Object].init (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/deps/jquery-1.6.1.min.js:16:7963)
Error: Invalid character: Invalid character in tag name: )
at Object.createElement (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/level1/core.js:1190:13)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:128:35)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at HtmlToDom.appendHtmlToElement (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:77:9)
at Object.innerHTML (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/index.js:420:27)
at Function.clean (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/deps/jquery-1.6.1.min.js:18:317)
at Function.buildFragment (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/deps/jquery-1.6.1.min.js:17:31854)
Error: Invalid character: Invalid character in tag name: )
at Object.createElement (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/level1/core.js:1190:13)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:128:35)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at HtmlToDom.appendHtmlToElement (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:77:9)
Error: Invalid character: Invalid character in tag name: ;
at Object.createElement (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/level1/core.js:1190:13)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:128:35)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at setChild (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:171:7)
at HtmlToDom.appendHtmlToElement (/Users/andi/node_modules/scraper/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/htmltodom.js:77:9)
...

Surely, HTML is usually not correct, but syntax tolerance is expected by clients. The scraping and analyzing seems to work, but the errors are not suppressable.

Source:

  var scraper;
  scraper = require('scraper');
  try {
    scraper({
      uri: 'http://google.de/',
      headers: {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)'
      }
    }, function(e, $) {
      if (e) {
        throw err;
      }
      return $('body').each(function() {
        return console.log($(this).text() + '\n\n');
      });
    });
  } catch (e) {
    console.log('ERROR');
  }

[jprichardson]

I have the same problem. I'm using Node v0.4.12 on Ubuntu 11.10.