Website scraping using jquery and ajax

Question

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

Its not that difficult.

$(document).ready(function() {
  baseUrl = "http://www.somedomain.com/";
  $.ajax({
    url: baseUrl,
    type: "get",
    dataType: "",
    success: function(data) {
      //do something with data
    }
  });
});

I think this can give you a good clue - http://jsfiddle.net/skelly/m4QCt/