make a fetch request to html page code example

Example 1: fetch html from url

fetch('/about').then(function (response) {
	// The API call was successful!
	return response.text();
}).then(function (html) {

	// Convert the HTML string into a document object
	var parser = new DOMParser();
	var doc = parser.parseFromString(html, 'text/html');

	// Get the image file
	var img = doc.querySelector('img');
	console.log(img);

}).catch(function (err) {
	// There was an error
	console.warn('Something went wrong.', err);
});

Example 2: how to fetch web page source code with javascript

var myLoc = window.prompt('Please enter a web site address', 'http://');
getHttp =   myLoc.substring(0, 7);
 
if ( getHttp == "http://")
{
finalUrl = myLoc;
} else {
finalUrl = 'http://' + myLoc;
}
 
window.location = 'view-source:' + finalUrl;