Thank you Robert and Richard for your responses. So far I don't know enough about Ruby or PHP to even begin to understand how I could get this to work on my Windows 2003 server.
I got a glimmer of something interesting there though, maybe even a business plan. Has anybody or is anybody interested in creating a server that takes two parameters through some process like XMLRPC, SOAP etc..., parameter one would be a public url, parameter two would be a jQuery selector and returns just the HTML from your selector? I'd pay for something like that, for a bucket of 1000 requests or something. If webmasters didn't want you crawling their site for that, I'm sure a meta tag or robots.txt could stop it. Hmm...any thoughts or takers on that? It sounds like these two things are almost there. -Shaun On Apr 2, 2:41 pm, "Robert Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/4/2, Shaun Kester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > I was wondering if anyone had made progress on using jQuery on the > > server side. I'm a Visual Foxpro programmer (yeah, I know MS > > discontinued it) and regularly pull the HTML of a page down to a file > > or variable to process. What I'd like to to is be able to select the > > HTML using jQuery to insert into a table. > > if you want to scrape data out of html files you need a good html > parser. i doubt you find a better one then the above-quoted hpricot > (http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/) > > it supports jquery like selectors ex. p:not(.blue) > > on top of it there is a wow tool called scrubythttp://scrubyt.org/ > that builds xpath selections *by examples* and processes the html to > xml output. > > good cause to install ruby :) > > -robert > > >I'll ask this also on the > > VFP forums, but since it involved jQuery, thought I'd duplicate the > > question. I've read the wikipedia link and spent hours on Google > > searching for "server side javascript" but haven't been able find a > > solution. > > > One idea I had was to download the remote HTML to a file, embed jQuery > > in it, then have it post information about the file back to the > > server. I'm afraid though that I don't know jQuery well enough to even > > attempt this with a bunch of FOR loops and Ajax POSTs. > > > Thoughts anyone? > > > Thanks for your time! > > -Shaun > > > On Feb 24, 3:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (howard chen) wrote: > > > Anyone think that it would be great to usejQueryinserverside? > > > > such as grab html from remoteserver, and process the html elements > > > usingjQuery, > > > > any idea?
