Re: parsing web pages

Carl wrote:
With python I can pull a web page using urllib2 and then parse it
using BeautifulSoup. Is there any similar functionality in javascript
that will allow me to do the same thing?

Server-side: yes. Client-side: Yes, when using XHR with the same protocol,
domain, and port (Same Origin Policy).

What do you want to achieve?


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when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
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