Is there any way to use the JQuery GetJSON method to get HTML from an external page?

Question

So let\'s say you\'re trying to do a jquery ajax request, something like:

$.ajax({
    ...
    url: http://other-website.com
    ...
})

I under

Answer 1

Yes, you can request html from a remote location, however you must use a proxy to do so. One publicly available proxy is YQL.

http://jsfiddle.net/BKJWu/

var query = 'SELECT * FROM html WHERE url="http://mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried/" and xpath="//h1" and class="entry-title"';
var url = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=" + query + "&format=json&callback=??";


$.getJSON(url,function(data){
    alert(data.query.results.h1.content);
})

You could of course build your own on your server that returns plain html rather than json.