Website scraping using jquery and ajax

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I want to be able to manipulate the html of a given url. Something like html scraping. I know this can be done using curl or some scraping library.But i would like to know i

Answer 1

I would like to point out that there are situations where it is perfectly acceptable to use jQuery to scrape screens across domains. Windows Sidebar gadgets run in a 'Local Machine Zone' that allows cross domain scripting.

And jQuery does have the ability to apply selectors to retreived html content. You just need to add the selector to a load() method's url parameter after a space.

The example gadget code below checks this page every hour and reports the total number of page views.

    
    



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