YQL: html table is no longer supported

Question

I use YQL to get some html-pages for reading information out of it. Since today I get the return message \"html table is no longer supported. See https://policies.yahoo.com/

Answer 1

Thank you very much for your code.

It helped me to create my own script to read those pages which I need. I never programmed PHP before, but with your code and the wisdom of the internet I could change your script to my needs.

PHP

loadHTML($html);

    // apply xpath filter
    $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
    $elements = $xpath->query($xpathQuery);
    $temp_dom = new DOMDocument();
    foreach($elements as $n)   $temp_dom->appendChild($temp_dom->importNode($n,true));
    $renderedHtml = $temp_dom->saveHTML();

    // return html in json response
    // json structure: 
    // {html: "xxxx"}
    $post_data = array(
      'html' => $renderedHtml
    );  
    echo json_encode($post_data); 

?>

Javascript

$.ajax({
    url: "url of service",
    dataType: "json", 
    data: { url: url,
            xpath: "//*"
          },
    type: 'GET',
    success: function() {
             },
    error: function(data) {
           }
});