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Asked: 2026-05-13T14:13:39+00:00

i need to retrieve information regarding a ventrilo server’s status. ventrilo’s website offers a

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i need to retrieve information regarding a ventrilo server’s status. ventrilo’s website offers a service to retrieve information about a server. for example, this is the game arena ventrilo server: http://www.ventrilo.com/status.php?hostname=144.140.154.11&port=25000

i am trying to grab the part under “Channel and User info.”. but that table has no id and there are many other tables on the page. how can i go about doing this?

i also heard that some browsers do not allow you to load external content. how could i get around this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In addition to Marc’s answer, you could use Yahoo’s YQL service to retrieve the table with the following query

    select * from html where url="http://www.ventrilo.com/status.php?hostname=144.140.154.11&port=25000" and xpath='//center[4]/table'

    You can then use the YQL result with jQuery to display the table on your website shown in the following demo.

    Working Demo

    http://jsbin.com/eveka (editable via http://jsbin.com/eveka/edit)

    Full Source

    JavaScript

    var
  ventriloStatus = $('#ventriloStatus'),
  hostname = '144.140.154.11',
  port = 25000,
  ventriloURL = 'http://www.ventrilo.com/status.php?hostname=' + hostname + '&port=' + port,
  yqlURL = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?callback=?',
  xpath = '//center[4]/table',
  query = 'select * from html where url="' + ventriloURL + '" and xpath="' + xpath + '"'
  data = {
    q: query,
    format: 'xml',
    diagnostics: false
  };

ventriloStatus.text('Loading...');
$.getJSON(yqlURL, data, function (response) {
  ventriloStatus.html(response.results[0]).find('img').each(function () {
    this.src = 'http://www.ventrilo.com/' + this.src.split('/').slice(-1)[0];
  });
});

    HTML

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script class="jsbin" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>Ventrilo with YQL</title>
<style>
  body { font: 8pt sans-serif; }
  p { display: inline; }
  #ventriloStatus{ width: 600px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Ventrilo Status</h1>
  <div id="ventriloStatus"></div>
</body>
</html>
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