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I have been playing with the idea of using a simple screen-scraper using jQuery and I am wondering if the following is possible.
I have simple HTML page and am making an attempt (if this is possible) to grab the contents of all of the list items from another page, like so:
Main Page:
<!-- jQuery -->
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){
$.getJSON("[URL to other page]",
function(data){
//Iterate through the <li> inside of the URL's data
$.each(data.items, function(item){
$("<li/>").value().appendTo("#data");
});
});
});
</script>
<!-- HTML -->
<html>
<body>
<div id='data'></div>
</body>
</html>
Other Page:
//Html
<body>
<p><b>Items to Scrape</b></p>
<ul>
<li>I want to scrape what is here</li>
<li>and what is here</li>
<li>and here as well</li>
<li>and append it in the main page</li>
</ul>
</body>
So, is it possible using jQuery to pull all of the list item contents from an external page and append them inside of a div?