In JavaScript, is there a way to get source code of a given URL?

Question

In JavaScript, is there a way to get source code of a page given its URL? Kind of equivalent to PHP\'s file_get_contents()

Answer 1

You can just download from a URL through XMLHttpRequest (or jQuery's ajax):

$.get(
    'yourfile.js', 
    function(data) { 
        // The source code is in data
    } 
);