How to use JQuery selectors in Node.js

Question

I\'m trying to extract email info from HTML files in my hard drive.

If I load the file in firefox and run jQuerify bookmarklet I can use successfully the following selec

Answer 1

It's tough to use jquery with node.js but it's possible. Here's an implementation with jsdom:

var jsdom = require('jsdom').jsdom,
    sys = require('sys'),
    window = jsdom().createWindow();

jsdom.jQueryify(window, '/path/to/jquery.js', function (window, jquery) {
  window.jQuery('body').append("
Hello World
");
  sys.puts(window.jQuery(".testing").text()); // outputs Hello World
});

For more info see:

http://blog.nodejitsu.com/jsdom-jquery-in-5-lines-on-nodejs

or:

Can I use jQuery with Node.js?