AJAX cross domain call

Question

I know about AJAX cross-domain policy. So I can\'t just call \"http://www.google.com\" over a ajax HTTP request and display the results somewhere on my site.

I tried

Answer 1

You can use YQL to do the request without needing to host your own proxy. I have made a simple function to make it easier to run commands:

function RunYQL(command, callback){
     callback_name = "__YQL_callback_"+(new Date()).getTime();
     window[callback_name] = callback;
     a = document.createElement('script');
     a.src = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q="
             +escape(command)+"&format=json&callback="+callback_name;
     a.type = "text/javascript";
     document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(a);
}

If you have jQuery, you may use $.getJSON instead.

A sample may be this:

RunYQL('select * from html where url="http://www.google.com/"',
       function(data){/* actions */}
);