Fetch meta-tags from url only by jQuery

Question

Now a lot of scripts to facebook-style fetching data from url, but all of them work only in combination of jQuery and PHP. Is it possible to fetch url only by jQuery?

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Answer 1

With filter works fine!

You can try.

$.get('http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jun/21/jimmy-carr-apologises-error-tax', function(data) {
    $(data).filter('meta[name=adescription]').attr("content");
});