This OLCC programming example page demonstrates getting a 2D drawing from NCI/CADD using JavaScript.

Press the "test" button to evaluate the JavaScript in the textarea below.
Feel free to modify the JavaScript and press test again.

var name = "butanoic acid" var url = "http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?Units=SI&Name=" + encodeURIComponent(name); // Send this url to the proxy, which just returns the HTML code of the page. url = "https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jsmol/php/jsmol.php?query=" + encodeURIComponent(url); $("#url").html(url); $.get(url, function(data){ $("#rawhtml").html(data.replace(/\</g,"&lt;").replace(/\n/g,"<br>")); // Get the text that is the second XML element in the li tag containing "IR Spectrum" var anchor = $(data).find("li li:contains('IR Spectrum')"); if (anchor.length) { var nistID = anchor.contents().attr("href").split("ID=")[1].split("&")[0]; var source = "http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?Spec=NISTID&Index=1&Type=IR&Large=on&SVG=on"; source = source.replace(/NISTID/, nistID); $("#source").html(source); $("#image").attr({src:source}); } else { $("#source").html("<no IR available>"); $("#image").attr({src:"no_ir_available"}); } });


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