Question

I need to grab data from this text from this page:
http://www.chess.com/home/game_archive?sortby=&show=echess&member=deckers1066

I cannot seem to get it working using.

var text = document.body;

var results = text.match(/id=[0-9]*>/g);

I need to grab all occurrences that look something like this

/echess/game?id=60942234

I’m interested more in the id number

Answer 1

You’ve got two problems with your code; one is the string you want to search is document.body.innerHTML and the other is the RegExp is looking for the end tag to the element, > without a quote before it. Try this

var results = document.body.innerHTML.match(/id=\d+/g);

Note I completely ommited the end tag because this RegExp is greedy and it means you don’t have to worry about HTML parsing.