Get the contents of a div element from one site to another

Question

I have an argument in JS which holds pretty much the data. It's the server information to my server. It changes often, e.g 20/64 or 32/64. You get the point.

I am trying to get the contents of the data to go on an external site, however, when I try, it doesn't work.

To summerise, I have a div which holds the data, I want to get that data using JS and put it on an external site which isn't using the same domain or web server.

HTML FILE:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
    <script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="serverstats-wrapper"></div>
    <script src="import.js"></script>
</body>

JS File:

        $(document).ready(function(){
            $.post("query.php", {}, 
                function (data) {
                    $('#serverstats-wrapper').html (data);
                });
        });

        var the_main = document.getElementById("serverstats-wrapper");
        var the_data = the_main.textContent ? the_main.textContent : the_main.innerText;

I want to get the text from the html file to the js file then take it to an external website.

What have you tried exactly (code please)? It sounds like you would want to make a POST request to the external site. — Mathias W, Jan 20 '17 at 22:55
You can try to use some proxy. Check this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176668/how-to-use-yql-to-retrieve-web-results — Krzysztof Kaźmierczak, Jan 20 '17 at 23:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '17 at 22:59

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Tasid! This won't work! JS does't have such a technique implementet. To do so, you need node.js. This allows you to send the data over a socket to your other webserver. It does't work difrently, because JS is executed direct on your PC.

answered Jan 20 '17 at 22:59

ghnome

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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You can grab data from another site; but you cannot inject JS code into another site. Here are some methods to retrieve html from another site: Include another HTML file in a HTML file

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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answered Jan 20 '17 at 23:10

Kursad Gulseven

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Get the contents of a div element from one site to another

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