How to parse an HTML string in Google Apps Script without using XmlService?

Question

I want to create a scraper using Google Spreadsheets with Google Apps Script. I know it is possible and I have seen some tutorials and threads about it.

The main ide

Answer 1

Could you use javascript to parse the html? If your Google Apps Script retrieved the html as a string and then returned it to a javascript function, it seems like you could parse it just fine outside of the Google Apps script. Any tags you want to scrape, you could send to a dedicated Google Apps function that would save the content.

You could probably accomplish this more easily with jQuery.