Hey all

I've seen javascript bookmarklets that somehow "read" the products from an Amazon.com web page. Basically, you click the bookmarklet (which you've placed in the navbar of your browser as a shortcut), and it "reads" the product on the page you're on.... then transfers that product info to a database.

Any clues at all on how this can be done?

For an example of what I'm talking about, go here:
http://www.kaboodle.com/zd/setup/setuphelp-safari.html

Looks like some advanced javascript, maybe beyond my level at this point, but I'm hoping someone can at least get me started. Like what commands in javscript can actually read stuff from a page?

Thx

They can use XMLHTTPREQUEST also known as Ajax to load data from javascript without involving the browser.