I want to write a greasemonkey script to scrape sites and save data locally, can I use javascript to save the information gathered locally?
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I want to write a greasemonkey script to scrape sites and save data locally, can I use javascript to save the information gathered locally?
Use Mozilla’s File Object. MDN docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/File_I%2F%2FO
EDIT: this is easier, but for Chrome only http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/