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Example code to get data from wikipedia page using YQL
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yqlscraptest.html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>YQL DEMO</TITLE>
<script type="text/javascript">
function renderYQL(o) {
var div = document.getElementById("main");
var html = "";
if (div) {
if (o.results[0]) {
count = o.results.length;
for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
html =html + o.results[i] + '<br/' + '>';
}
div.innerHTML = html;
} else if (o.results) {
div.innerHTML = o.results;
} else {
div.innerHTML = 'failed';
}
}
}
</script>
<style>
body{
text-align:center;
}
#main{
width:500px;
margin:auto;
}
</style>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<strong>YQL Page Scraping Demo</strong>
<DIV id="main">
Loading YQL JSON...........
</DIV>
<script src="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%22http%3A//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21_query_language%22%20and%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20xpath%3D'//div%5B@id%3D%22bodyContent%22%5D/p%5B1%5D'&format=xml&diagnostics=true&callback=renderYQL">
/*
Here we will get the JSON as
renderYQL({'results':'blah blah'})
which will call the function renderYQL.
*/
</script>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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