Create REST service to read source of website

[Andy Parker]

Hi,

I've touched upon this before, but have still not managed to succeed in getting the data passed to my application.

Basically, I need to be able to read the html code of a website and within the app read sections of the html to further process.

I have setup a rest service and used the following parameters:
URL: website URL
method: GET
Data Type: XML

When I run a test I can see the HTML from the website, all good there.
Obviously the "auto create response" wont work as there is no formatting for this.
So I though I could use some javascript to handle the response.

But I cannot even get the data to map into anything so I can run some javascript on it.

Can someone give me a clue how I can do this please?

regards

Andy.

[Kateryna Grynko]

Hi Andy,

The HTML format is different from the XML, so, you can't convert it to that and get Response parameters.

[Andy Parker]

Ah OK, so is there absolutely no way to get at the source html of a website using this platform?

Thanks again

Andy.

[Kateryna Grynko]

Hi Andy,

You can manually send a request and get a page.
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/#exa...
In this case, you will need to extract data using jQuery manually.

[Andy Parker]

Wow, thanks for this. J query is not something I've really researched.
Thanks for the link, I obviously have some reading and learning to do.
I really appreciate the help you give to your customers, it is truly fantastic.

Regards

Andy