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

maybe not the cleanest approach, but simple string processing does the job too without xmlservice:

var url = 'https://somewebsite.com/?q=00:11:22:33:44:55';
var html = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText();
// we want only the link text displayed from here:
//Ubiquiti Networks Inc.
var string1 = html.split('')[0];           // all before ''
var string3 = string2.split('>')[1];                   // all after '>'
Logger.log('link text: '+string3);                     // string3 => "Ubiquiti Networks Inc."