[zedwill]

Yahoo has a very similar service called Yahoo YQL. It can parse any web resource like HTML or XML and is conceniently available in JSONP format to bypass browser cross domain limitations. It supports parsing the data in server side javascript.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

[joubert]

And if you want to use XLS or CSV in YQL, you can dot it like so: http://joubert.posterous.com/lift-legacy-excel-data-into-the...