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codejammer
codejammer

Reputation: 469

Search for a text from html using javascript

I am a newbie to javascript and trying to search for text in an external html page. I am trying to achieve this directly on the browser and hence nodejs is not an option.

I know this is not the very kind of question asked on SE but I am left with no option. So far even an extensive search on internet didn't solve my problem. Any pointer could be helpful.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 160

Answers (2)

void
void

Reputation: 36703

Yes it can be done, you should be using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

Include this http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

PHP

//find.php

    <?php
    $url = $_REQUEST['url'];
    $strtofind = $_REQUEST['strtofind'];
    $cont = file_get_html($url)->plaintext; 
    $pos = strpos($cont , $strtofind );
    echo ($pos==false?"Not found":"Found");
?>

Here is JS Function

//js function
$.get("find.php?url="+url+"&strtofind="+strtofind, function(data){
console.log(data);
});

Pass whatever URL you want to paas. The JS will make a request and the PHP file will give the source code.

Upvotes: 0

cn123h
cn123h

Reputation: 2332

I don't think there is an easy way to do it in client, it's typical job on server side. Browser will block such script for security reason.

Upvotes: 1

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