I wanted to get the text contents of this web page into excel. Sure it’s backed by a database (if you can call Access a database :-p) but I thought it would be fun to play with jQuery instead. This is probably something that could also be done with python or perl, but like I said I wanted to play with jQuery.

The page itself does not use jQuery but it’s possible to add jQuery to any page with the awesome jQuerify bookmarklet so that’s what I did. Then I fired up the console in Chrome and started hacking.