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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:17:34+00:00

Is it possible to download the entire HTML of a webpage using JavaScript given

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Is it possible to download the entire HTML of a webpage using JavaScript given the URL? What I want to do is to develop a Firefox add-on to download the content of all the links found in the source of current page of browser.

update: the URLs reside in the same domain

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    It should be possible to do using jQuery ajax. Javascript in a Firefox extension is not subject to the cross-origin restriction. Here are some tips for using jQuery in a Firefox extension:

    1. Add the jQuery library to your extension’s chrome/content/ directory.

    2. Load jQuery in the window load event callback rather than including it in your browser overlay XUL. Otherwise it can cause conflicts (e.g. clobbers a user’s customized toolbar).

      (function(loader){ 
loader.loadSubScript("chrome://ryebox/content/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"); })
(Components.classes["@mozilla.org/moz/jssubscript-loader;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.mozIJSSubScriptLoader));

    3. Use “jQuery” instead of “$”. I experienced weird behavior when using $ instead of jQuery (a conflict of some kind I suppose)

    4. Use jQuery(content.document) instead of jQuery(document) to access a page’s DOM. In a Firefox extension “document” refers to the browser’s XUL whereas “content.document” refers to the page’s DOM.

    I wrote a Firefox extension for getting bookmarks from my friend’s bookmark site. It uses jQuery to fetch my bookmarks in a JSON response from his service, then creates a menu of those bookmarks so that I can easily access them. You can browse the source at https://github.com/erturne/ryebox

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