AJAX

Today many websites load their content using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). This often greatly improves user experience but also may become a stumbling block for some web scrapers. At the same time a good web scraper should be able to parse all major data formats that are used in AJAX technology: HTML, XML and JSON.

You may use this test to check scraper's ability to:

1. Receive HTML via AJAX and parse it
2. Receive XML via AJAX and parse it
3. Receive JSON via AJAX and parse it

How does it work:

• The browser receives three lists of three names through AJAX in three different formats: HTML, XML and JSON
• HTML data is received automatically as the page is loaded
• To receive XML and JSON data you need to click to a corresponding link
• The scraper should be able to extract all nine names

HTML

XML

JSON