How to read the source of another webpage - javascript

Asked Nov 12 '18 at 14:01

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Are there any ways to read the html from another website using javascript? In java you can just do this:

URL url = URL("https://google.com")
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(url.openStream())

and then save it to a string by doing this:

String html = ""
while(scanner.hasNext()) html += scanner.nextLine() + "\n"

but i haven't found any easy ways to do this in (plain) javascript. Are there even any? I've tried the iframe trick, but a lot of pages block it these days, including google drive, which is the page i want to get the html from.

asked Nov 12 '18 at 14:01

Kris10an

Not from another origin - it is not "a lot of pages block" it is ALL pages block acces not from the same origin or when CORS is not enabled – mplungjan Nov 12 '18 at 14:03
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4229043/load-page-content-to-variable – aurelius Nov 12 '18 at 14:04
@aurelius that would not work at all – mplungjan Nov 12 '18 at 14:05
Please perform a [minimum of research](https://www.google.nl/search?q=javascript+access+OR+read+another+webpage+site:stackoverflow.com) – mplungjan Nov 12 '18 at 14:06
A solution is for you to write a proxy that returns your client the source of a site you read using JAVA on the server – mplungjan Nov 12 '18 at 14:07

How to read the source of another webpage - javascript

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