Is there a jQuery webscraper out there?

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Published on 2010-03-26T19:40:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 20:03 UTC
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I'm trying to pullout some info from an external site using jQuery and Adobe AIR. Right now I'm using a hidden div and jQuery's load function to load fragments of the external site, once the info is loaded I parse some info with selectors. This is fine but it's kinda dirty and I need to perform this several times (don't want to need many hidden divs).

Just wondering if anybody knows a good webscrapper written in jQuery or maybe another method I'm missing

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