How to programmatically download a URL and query the DOM? I don't care that much about the language of implementation

Question

How to programmatically download a URL and query the DOM? I don't care that much about the language of implementation

Answer 1

Ajax & RegEx (do it in JS, follow internet tutorials)

Answer 2

I would use Python and beautifulSoup to get a URL and then an XPath selector to target a specific element inside the DOM