Re: Problem in Web scraping

From	Jeremy J Starcher <r3jjs@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Problem in Web scraping
Date	2012-01-11 17:13 +0000
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:07:30 -0800, Scott Sauyet wrote:

> karthiga wrote:
>> Is it possible to fetch dynamic content from two websites at the same
>> page.
> In the browser this is generally not possible [1], unless the sites
> cooperate by, for example, providing a JSONP API [2] or by supporting
> CORS [3].  But it's very easy to write a server-side proxy that loads
> the external sites as though they were local.

If this is for your own personal use (and not something you want to share/
distribute) then a UserScript[1] isn't limited by the same domain origin 
limitation.

[1] I have a lot of experience doing similar things in IE and Firefox, 
both using a plugin to get Userscript abilities.  Some other browsers 
(like Chrome) have some UserScript abilities built in, but YMMV.

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Problem in Web scraping karthiga <cutekarthi2989@gmail.com> - 2011-12-21 21:24 -0800
  Re: Problem in Web scraping Bart Van der Donck <bart@nijlen.com> - 2011-12-22 02:42 -0800
  Re: Problem in Web scraping Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-12-22 06:07 -0800
    Re: Problem in Web scraping Jeremy J Starcher <r3jjs@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-11 17:13 +0000

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