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Getting data from other sites using javascript

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I want to to get data within divs from other websites.
How can I do that using JavaScript?

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answered 12 Years ago aidan · Accepted Answer

Due to cross domain restrictions you can't access the html directly using AJAX.

You can however use Yahoo YQL to select the part(s) of a page you want and have that html returned within jsonp data.

Example returning list of questions on main page of stackoverflow

var url='http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select * from html where url='http://stackoverflow.com/' and xpath='//div[@id="question-mini-list"]//h3//a'&format=json&callback=?';





$.getJSON( url, function(data){

    $.each(data.query.results.a, function(){       

        $('body').append('<div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com'+this.href +'">'+this.content+'</a></div>')          

     })

})

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/NTUx5/

YQL docs: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/index.html

EDIT: This does not work any more.