Are there best practices or alternative methods to access values set by JavaScript in PHP when parsing web content?

When parsing web content that contains values set by JavaScript, one common approach is to use a headless browser like Puppeteer to render the page and execute the JavaScript, then extract the values from the rendered content. This ensures that all JavaScript code on the page is executed and any dynamically set values are available for parsing in PHP. 

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use HeadlessChromium\BrowserFactory;
use HeadlessChromium\Page;

$browserFactory = new BrowserFactory();
$browser = $browserFactory->createBrowser();

$page = $browser->createPage();
$page->navigate('https://example.com')->waitForNavigation();
$html = $page->evaluate('document.documentElement.outerHTML');

// Parse the HTML content to extract the values set by JavaScript
// For example, using DOMDocument or regular expressions

$browser->close();

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JavaScript PHP web content parsing values

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