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Scrape a page by using YQL
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scraping-yql.html
<html>
<header>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/javascripts/jquery-1.6.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var url = "http://example.com/";
var query = 'select * from html where url="' + url + '" and xpath="*"';
var apiUrl = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql";
$.ajax({
url:apiUrl,
data: {q: query},
dataType:"xml",
success:function(data, textStatus, jqXHR){
console.log(textStatus);
console.log(jqXHR);
console.log(data);
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
console.log(textStatus);
console.log(jqXHR);
console.log(errorThrown);
}
});
});
</script>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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