I'm very new to Javascript and coding in general and have a project I would really like to work on, but am having trouble knowing where to start, in particular step one. So far this is what I want the programme to do:
Access/read html files from four external links (Is this where I use fetch()? Are there any packages you can recommend for this?)
User inputs a list of names
Search html files for each item in list
4a. If there is a match, then output 'match' and which file the match was found
4b. If no match then output 'no match'
Is it more complex than just using HTML, CSS and JavaScript?
Thank you in advance!
You won't be able to get data from external url in browser due to CORS policy
What you should do instead is create server-side solution and API for it.
Server side solution should request the external page HTML code, search for the word and send the result back to the browser.
The problem with implementing this in the browser is because of cross-origin issues. Essentially you aren't allowed to fetch() nor XMLHttpRequest() to other domains unless they specifically let you to. See the mdn docs here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
You could implement this is Node.js which allows you to run js in a desktop environment. If you were doing so, i recommend the following:
node-fetch to do HTTP requestscheerio to parse the dataBest Regards, Kelvin