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package/README.md

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+# zerodom (TypeScript)
+
+TypeScript port of [ZeroDOM](https://github.com/DevHusnainAi/zerodom)'s core engine —
+same interaction graph, same selector guarantees, for the Node/TS agent stack
+(LangChain.js, the Vercel AI SDK, Playwright for Node).
+
+This is a v1 port: the parser, label linker, and a one-line Playwright adapter.
+The CLI, MCP server, and HTML report inspector are still Python-only — this package
+is the piece most JS agents actually need (`ZeroDOM.fromPage(page)` →
+`graph.toCompactText()`), not the whole toolchain. See the root
+[README](../README.md) for the full feature set and design rationale; the logic
+here is a line-for-line port of `../zerodom/parser.py` and `../zerodom/label_linker.py`,
+so the same design notes (selector priority, label priority, escaping rules) apply.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+npm install @vexralabs/zerodom
+```
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```ts
+import { ZeroDOM } from "@vexralabs/zerodom";
+
+const graph = await ZeroDOM.fromPage(page);   // any object with content()/url(), e.g. a Playwright Page
+console.log(graph.toCompactText());           // what you send the model
+const selectors = graph.selectorMap();        // { node_01: "#email-input", ... } — stays your side
+```
+
+```ts
+import { parseHtml } from "@vexralabs/zerodom";
+
+const graph = parseHtml(html, url);           // parse HTML you already have, no browser needed
+```
+
+## Why linkedom, not jsdom
+
+`linkedom` gives a real `querySelector`/`getElementById` DOM — needed so every
+generated selector can be self-verified, the same guarantee the Python version
+makes against a real browser — at a fraction of jsdom's footprint. One caveat this
+port works around: unlike jsdom or a real browser, linkedom's parser doesn't
+normalize a bare HTML fragment into a full `<html><body>` document, so
+`ZeroDOMParser` wraps non-document input itself before handing it to linkedom
+(`page.content()` output is unaffected — it's always a full document already).
+
+## Development
+
+```bash
+npm install
+npm run build   # tsc -> dist/
+npm test        # node's built-in test runner, against the built dist
+```

package/dist/frames.d.ts

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+/**
+ * Reaching into iframes. Port of zerodom/frames.py.
+ *
+ * Each frame is a separate document with its own DOM, so a CSS selector from the
+ * top page can never address something inside one. Playwright bridges that with
+ * `frameLocator()`, and this module records, per node, the chain of iframe
+ * selectors needed to get there — so `locate(page, node)` reaches any node in any
+ * frame, and callers never have to know which is which.
+ *
+ * Node's Playwright API is async-only (no sync/async split like Python's), so
+ * there's one version of each function here where the Python source has two.
+ */
+import type { GraphNode } from "./parser.js";
+/** Minimal surface this module needs from a Playwright Frame. */
+export interface FrameLike {
+    url(): string;
+    parentFrame(): FrameLike | null;
+    frameElement(): Promise<{
+        evaluate(fn: string): Promise<number>;
+        boundingBox(): Promise<{
+            width: number;
+            height: number;
+        } | null>;
+    }>;
+}
+/**
+ * Selectors from the top document down to `frame`, or null if unreachable.
+ *
+ * Indexed rather than named: `iframe >> nth=2` survives a frame with no id, no
+ * name and no stable class, which is most of them.
+ */
+export declare function frameChain(frame: FrameLike): Promise<string[] | null>;
+/**
+ * Is this frame rendered, and big enough to hold something clickable?
+ *
+ * `boundingBox()` returns null for a frame that is display:none or detached,
+ * which is most of the iframes on an ad-supported page. A visible frame below
+ * MIN_FRAME_PX is a tracking pixel.
+ */
+export declare function isWorthReading(frame: FrameLike): Promise<boolean>;
+/** Minimal surface this module needs from a Playwright Page or FrameLocator. */
+export interface LocatableLike {
+    frameLocator(selector: string): LocatableLike;
+    locator(selector: string): unknown;
+}
+/**
+ * A Playwright locator for `node`, descending into its frame if it has one.
+ *
+ * The single place that knows how a node's `frame` chain turns into something
+ * clickable — click, fill and the report measurer all route through it, so they
+ * cannot disagree about where a node lives.
+ */
+export declare function locate(page: LocatableLike, node: GraphNode): unknown;
+/** Re-id a merged node list so ids stay dense and in document order. */
+export declare function renumber(nodes: GraphNode[]): GraphNode[];

package/dist/frames.js

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+/**
+ * Reaching into iframes. Port of zerodom/frames.py.
+ *
+ * Each frame is a separate document with its own DOM, so a CSS selector from the
+ * top page can never address something inside one. Playwright bridges that with
+ * `frameLocator()`, and this module records, per node, the chain of iframe
+ * selectors needed to get there — so `locate(page, node)` reaches any node in any
+ * frame, and callers never have to know which is which.
+ *
+ * Node's Playwright API is async-only (no sync/async split like Python's), so
+ * there's one version of each function here where the Python source has two.
+ */
+/** `about:blank` is deliberately NOT here — a frame written by srcdoc or
+ * document.write keeps that URL and holds the embedded preview an agent came
+ * for. Size and content decide whether a frame is worth reading, not its URL. */
+const SKIP_URL_PREFIXES = ["javascript:", "data:"];
+// An iframe smaller than this is a tracking pixel or a consent beacon.
+const MIN_FRAME_PX = 40;
+/**
+ * Selectors from the top document down to `frame`, or null if unreachable.
+ *
+ * Indexed rather than named: `iframe >> nth=2` survives a frame with no id, no
+ * name and no stable class, which is most of them.
+ */
+export async function frameChain(frame) {
+    const chain = [];
+    let current = frame;
+    let parent = current.parentFrame();
+    while (parent !== null) {
+        let index;
+        try {
+            const element = await current.frameElement();
+            index = await element.evaluate("e => [...e.ownerDocument.querySelectorAll('iframe')].indexOf(e)");
+        }
+        catch {
+            return null;
+        }
+        if (index < 0)
+            return null;
+        chain.push(`iframe >> nth=${index}`);
+        current = parent;
+        parent = current.parentFrame();
+    }
+    return chain.reverse();
+}
+/**
+ * Is this frame rendered, and big enough to hold something clickable?
+ *
+ * `boundingBox()` returns null for a frame that is display:none or detached,
+ * which is most of the iframes on an ad-supported page. A visible frame below
+ * MIN_FRAME_PX is a tracking pixel.
+ */
+export async function isWorthReading(frame) {
+    if (SKIP_URL_PREFIXES.some((p) => (frame.url() || "").toLowerCase().startsWith(p)))
+        return false;
+    try {
+        const element = await frame.frameElement();
+        const box = await element.boundingBox();
+        return !!box && box.width >= MIN_FRAME_PX && box.height >= MIN_FRAME_PX;
+    }
+    catch {
+        return false;
+    }
+}
+/**
+ * A Playwright locator for `node`, descending into its frame if it has one.
+ *
+ * The single place that knows how a node's `frame` chain turns into something
+ * clickable — click, fill and the report measurer all route through it, so they
+ * cannot disagree about where a node lives.
+ */
+export function locate(page, node) {
+    let target = page;
+    for (const selector of node.frame ?? [])
+        target = target.frameLocator(selector);
+    return target.locator(node.selector);
+}
+/** Re-id a merged node list so ids stay dense and in document order. */
+export function renumber(nodes) {
+    nodes.forEach((node, i) => {
+        node.id = `node_${String(i + 1).padStart(2, "0")}`;
+    });
+    return nodes;
+}

package/dist/index.d.ts

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+export { InteractionGraph, ZeroDOMParser, parseHtml, cssId, cssString, classToken, isShadowRoot, compactLine, findNodes, } from "./parser.js";
+export type { GraphNode, GraphMetadata } from "./parser.js";
+export { LabelLinker, textOf, getLabel } from "./labelLinker.js";
+export { frameChain, isWorthReading, locate, renumber } from "./frames.js";
+export type { FrameLike, LocatableLike } from "./frames.js";
+export { ZeroDOM, serialize, SERIALIZE } from "./playwright.js";
+export type { PageLike } from "./playwright.js";

package/dist/index.js

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+export { InteractionGraph, ZeroDOMParser, parseHtml, cssId, cssString, classToken, isShadowRoot, compactLine, findNodes, } from "./parser.js";
+export { LabelLinker, textOf, getLabel } from "./labelLinker.js";
+export { frameChain, isWorthReading, locate, renumber } from "./frames.js";
+export { ZeroDOM, serialize, SERIALIZE } from "./playwright.js";

package/dist/labelLinker.d.ts

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+/** Work out what a control is called, the way a person reading the page would. Port of zerodom/label_linker.py. */
+export declare function textOf(el: Element): string;
+/**
+ * Caption sitting immediately before an input, as in `Search: <input>`.
+ *
+ * Reads the text between the previous element sibling and this element (or the
+ * parent's leading text when this is the first child). Only the last few words are
+ * kept — the text run before an input is often a whole sentence of surrounding
+ * copy, not a caption.
+ */
+export declare function adjacentText(el: Element): string;
+/**
+ * Resolves labels against a pre-indexed set of <label> tags.
+ *
+ * The parser walks the DOM once and hands over what it saw, so label lookup stays
+ * O(1) per node instead of re-searching the tree for every input.
+ */
+export declare class LabelLinker {
+    private readonly root;
+    private readonly labelsByFor;
+    constructor(root: Document, labelsByFor?: Map<string, Element>);
+    label(element: Element, ancestorLabel?: Element | null): string;
+}
+/** Standalone label lookup for a single element. */
+export declare function getLabel(root: Document, element: Element): string;

package/dist/labelLinker.js

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+/** Work out what a control is called, the way a person reading the page would. Port of zerodom/label_linker.py. */
+// Attribute fallbacks, most explicit first. Split around the adjacent-text scan:
+// authored attributes beat scraped text, but scraped text beats name/value, which
+// are developer identifiers ("q") rather than anything a user reads.
+const AUTHORED_ATTRS = ["aria-label", "placeholder", "alt", "title"];
+const IDENTIFIER_ATTRS = ["value", "name"];
+// Icon buttons routinely put their only human-readable caption in a tooltip
+// library's data attribute. These four cover Tippy, Bootstrap and the
+// conventional hand-rolled spelling, which between them are most of the web.
+const TOOLTIP_ATTRS = ["data-tooltip", "data-original-title", "data-tippy-content", "data-tippy-simple-content"];
+// Controls that sit next to their caption. Buttons and links carry their own text.
+const CAPTIONED_TAGS = new Set(["input", "select", "textarea"]);
+// Inputs whose `value` is a button caption rather than user data.
+const BUTTON_INPUT_TYPES = new Set(["submit", "button", "reset", "image"]);
+const MAX_LABEL_LEN = 80;
+// Trailing punctuation on a caption: "Search:" -> "Search".
+const CAPTION_STRIP = /[ \t\n :*>\-–—]+$/;
+export function textOf(el) {
+    return collapse(el.textContent ?? "").slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+}
+function collapse(text) {
+    return text.split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean).join(" ");
+}
+/** Raw text between `afterEl` (exclusive) and `stopEl` — the DOM analogue of lxml's `.tail`. */
+function textBetween(afterEl, parent, stopEl) {
+    let node = afterEl ? afterEl.nextSibling : parent.firstChild;
+    let text = "";
+    while (node && node !== stopEl) {
+        if (node.nodeType === 3 /* TEXT_NODE */)
+            text += node.data;
+        node = node.nextSibling;
+    }
+    return text;
+}
+/**
+ * Caption sitting immediately before an input, as in `Search: <input>`.
+ *
+ * Reads the text between the previous element sibling and this element (or the
+ * parent's leading text when this is the first child). Only the last few words are
+ * kept — the text run before an input is often a whole sentence of surrounding
+ * copy, not a caption.
+ */
+export function adjacentText(el) {
+    const parent = el.parentElement;
+    if (!parent)
+        return "";
+    const previous = el.previousElementSibling;
+    const source = textBetween(previous, parent, el);
+    const caption = collapse(source).replace(CAPTION_STRIP, "");
+    if (!caption)
+        return "";
+    return caption.split(" ").slice(-6).join(" ").slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+}
+// Handler names that describe the plumbing rather than the action.
+const HANDLER_NOISE = new Set([
+    "return", "function", "void", "this", "event", "typeof", "new", "if",
+    "settimeout", "requestanimationframe", "preventdefault", "stoppropagation",
+]);
+const HANDLER_CALL = /([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)\s*\(/g;
+const WORD_BREAK = /(?<=[a-z0-9])(?=[A-Z])/g;
+/**
+ * The action an inline handler names, as words. `_bsa.close(…)` -> "close".
+ *
+ * Only ever reached when an element has no text, no icon and no attribute of its
+ * own, which in practice means an icon `<div onclick>` built out of an SVG path.
+ * Conservative on purpose: a name that describes the wiring instead of the intent
+ * is worse than admitting the control is unlabelled.
+ */
+function handlerLabel(onclick) {
+    const names = Array.from((onclick || "").matchAll(HANDLER_CALL), (m) => m[1]).reverse();
+    for (const name of names) {
+        if (name.length < 3 || HANDLER_NOISE.has(name.toLowerCase().replace(/^_+/, "")))
+            continue;
+        const words = name.replace(/^[_$]+|[_$]+$/g, "").replace(WORD_BREAK, " ").replace(/[_-]/g, " ");
+        const cleaned = collapse(words).toLowerCase();
+        if (cleaned)
+            return cleaned.slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+    }
+    return "";
+}
+/**
+ * A link's destination, trimmed to the part a person would read aloud.
+ *
+ * Last resort only — a real caption always wins. `javascript:` and bare fragments
+ * say nothing about where the link goes, so they stay unlabelled.
+ */
+function hrefLabel(href) {
+    const trimmed0 = href.trim();
+    if (trimmed0.startsWith("javascript:") || trimmed0.startsWith("#") || !trimmed0)
+        return "";
+    // Drop scheme and www so "https://news.ycombinator.com/" reads as the site.
+    const trimmed = trimmed0.replace(/^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:\/\/(www\.)?/i, "");
+    return trimmed.replace(/\/+$/, "").slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+}
+/**
+ * Resolves labels against a pre-indexed set of <label> tags.
+ *
+ * The parser walks the DOM once and hands over what it saw, so label lookup stays
+ * O(1) per node instead of re-searching the tree for every input.
+ */
+export class LabelLinker {
+    root;
+    labelsByFor;
+    constructor(root, labelsByFor) {
+        this.root = root;
+        if (labelsByFor) {
+            this.labelsByFor = labelsByFor;
+        }
+        else {
+            this.labelsByFor = new Map();
+            for (const tag of Array.from(root.querySelectorAll("label"))) {
+                const forId = tag.getAttribute("for");
+                if (forId && !this.labelsByFor.has(forId))
+                    this.labelsByFor.set(forId, tag);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    label(element, ancestorLabel = null) {
+        // explicit <label for="...">
+        const elemId = element.getAttribute("id");
+        if (elemId) {
+            const tag = this.labelsByFor.get(elemId);
+            if (tag) {
+                const text = textOf(tag);
+                if (text)
+                    return text;
+            }
+        }
+        // wrapping <label>
+        let ancestor = ancestorLabel;
+        if (!ancestor) {
+            let node = element.parentElement;
+            while (node) {
+                if (node.localName === "label") {
+                    ancestor = node;
+                    break;
+                }
+                node = node.parentElement;
+            }
+        }
+        if (ancestor) {
+            const text = textOf(ancestor);
+            if (text)
+                return text;
+        }
+        // aria-labelledby -> referenced element's text
+        for (const refId of (element.getAttribute("aria-labelledby") ?? "").split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean)) {
+            const ref = this.root.getElementById(refId);
+            if (ref) {
+                const text = textOf(ref);
+                if (text)
+                    return text;
+            }
+        }
+        // authored attribute fallbacks
+        for (const attr of AUTHORED_ATTRS) {
+            const val = element.getAttribute(attr);
+            if (val && val.trim())
+                return val.trim().slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+        }
+        // On a submit/button input, `value` is the visible caption, not an identifier.
+        if (element.localName === "input" && BUTTON_INPUT_TYPES.has(element.getAttribute("type") ?? "")) {
+            const val = element.getAttribute("value");
+            if (val && val.trim())
+                return val.trim().slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+        }
+        // Caption text next to the control, before falling back to identifiers
+        if (CAPTIONED_TAGS.has(element.localName)) {
+            const caption = adjacentText(element);
+            if (caption)
+                return caption;
+        }
+        // Inner text (buttons, links). Skipped for captioned controls, whose contents
+        // are their value or options — a <select>'s first <option> is not its label.
+        if (!CAPTIONED_TAGS.has(element.localName)) {
+            const text = textOf(element);
+            if (text)
+                return text;
+        }
+        for (const attr of IDENTIFIER_ATTRS) {
+            const val = element.getAttribute(attr);
+            if (val && val.trim())
+                return val.trim().slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+        }
+        // Icon-only controls carry their label on a descendant, not on themselves: an
+        // <img alt>, but just as often a styled <div title> or <i aria-label>. Hacker
+        // News' vote arrows are <a><div class="votearrow" title="upvote"></div></a>,
+        // and they are the most-clicked control on the page.
+        for (const descendant of Array.from(element.querySelectorAll("*"))) {
+            for (const attr of AUTHORED_ATTRS) {
+                const val = descendant.getAttribute(attr);
+                if (val && val.trim())
+                    return val.trim().slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+            }
+            // <svg><title>Save</title></svg> is the standards-defined accessible name
+            // for an inline icon. The walk prunes <svg>, but the label lookup reads it
+            // directly.
+            if ((descendant.localName === "title" || descendant.localName === "desc")) {
+                const text = textOf(descendant);
+                if (text)
+                    return text;
+            }
+        }
+        // Tooltip libraries, checked after real markup and before giving up.
+        for (const attr of TOOLTIP_ATTRS) {
+            const val = element.getAttribute(attr);
+            if (val && val.trim())
+                return val.trim().slice(0, MAX_LABEL_LEN);
+        }
+        // A link with no text and no icon label still has somewhere to go, and the
+        // destination is the only thing left that tells an agent them apart.
+        if (element.localName === "a") {
+            const href = (element.getAttribute("href") ?? "").trim();
+            if (href) {
+                const label = hrefLabel(href);
+                if (label)
+                    return label;
+            }
+        }
+        // Last resort: the handler's own name. A bare `<div onclick="_bsa.close(…)">`
+        // wrapping an SVG path has no text, no alt, no title and no tooltip — but
+        // somebody named the function, and "close" is worth more to an agent than
+        // "Unlabelled Element".
+        const handler = handlerLabel(element.getAttribute("onclick") ?? "");
+        if (handler)
+            return handler;
+        return "Unlabelled Element";
+    }
+}
+/** Standalone label lookup for a single element. */
+export function getLabel(root, element) {
+    return new LabelLinker(root).label(element);
+}