Cross-Domain Requests with jQuery

Question

For a project I need to get the source code of web page of different other domains. I have tried following code:

$('#container').load('http://google.com');

$.ajax({
    url: 'http://news.bbc.co.uk',
    type: 'GET',
    success: function(res) {
        var headline = $(res.responseText).find('a.tsh').text();
        alert(headline);
    }
});

Still I am not getting any results but just a blank alert box.

Answer 1

By default all browsers restrict cross-domain requests, you can get around this by using YQL as a proxy. See a guide here: http://ajaxian.com/archives/using-yql-as-a-proxy-for-cross-domain-ajax