jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js

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jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js

Screen scraping has been a focus of engineering for quite some time. Every major language out there has their own library of choice for performing these tasks:

• Ruby hpricot, nokogiri
• Python beautiful-soup, scrapy
• Perl pQuery
• PHP PHP DOM

The challenge with using these libraries is that they all have their own quirks that can make working with HTML, CSS and Javascript challenging.