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Ask HN: Problems for my web solution?

2 points by tcarnell 16y ago

cQuery.com is an application I built that extracts content from live web pages using CSS selectors: http://cquery.com/ I was wondering if the good people of HN could think of any interesting uses for a web service like this... If anybody is interested in the technology or how it could be integrated into other products and services, please do get in touch! I believe this service is pretty much unique and there are loads more features I want to add - let alone doing a bit of publicity, but I am reluctant to invest time without having a clear objective. Thanks!!!

tcarnell 16y ago
(oh, the name cQuery is inspired by 'jQuery' because cQuery uses some jQuery selector syntax expressions - and the 'c' stands for 'content' - thus: "content query")
kashif 16y ago
I cannot understand what this does by looking at your site and your examples don't work. Why don't you have a video?
- tcarnell 16y ago
  cQuery is an API based service. The examples are definately working! :-) If you goto http://cquery.com/examples/ http://cquery.com/examples/ and click the 'Latest John Resig blog post' link, you will see an empty page with the text "Spring 2010 jQuery Talks" (it may take a few seconds to load) - and as you can see from the source page (http://ejohn.org/blog/ http://ejohn.org/blog/) this is correct - so cQuery has loaded the webpage and extracted the title of the first blog post and returned it completely on the fly... and it used the CSS Selector "H3 B A:eq(0)" (well with a bit of jQuery syntax) to select the blog post title.