使用jquery和ajax进行网站抓取

I want to be able to manipulate the html of a given url. Something like html scraping. I know this can be done using curl or some scraping library.But i would like to know if it is possible to use jquery to make a get request to the url using ajax and retrieve the html of the url, and run jquery code on the html returned ?I want to be able to manipulate the html of a g