How Can I Get Equivalent Method Of Httpwebrequest In Javascript

As we all know HttpwebRequest loads another page behind the scenes without redirecting the client to the other page. How can I get this functionality using Javascript/Jquery? $(do

Solution 1:

A cross domain example by using yql,

var url = 'xyz.com'; // website you want to scrapevar yql = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=' + encodeURIComponent('select * from html where url="' + url + '"') + '&format=json&callback=?';  
$.getJSON(yql,function(data){
    if (data.results[0]){  
        console.log(data = data.results[0].replace(/<script[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/script>/gi, ''));  // The scraped data (the whole webpage)
    }
});

Solution 2:

As Corbin commented - you are looking for AJAX tutorial.

Since you've tagged with JQuery starting from JQuery.ajax is a good idea.

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