Parse HTML in javascript without loading all resources

I know there has been many question around this but I did not find any answer to my specific case (which should not be that specific after all).

I am build a html mobile app for multi platform using cordova, angularjs and ionic. My app is getting web pages from a server that I do not own and I need to extract some data from those pages.

I have found many ways but not satisfactory to me.

1. jQuery : I manage to parse the HTML successfully but unfortunately parsing my html page triggers the loading of the resources such as images which I don't want at all. I just want to extract string from the html page and certainly not load all the images.

2. create a virtual dom element with innerHTML like this

       var el = document.createElement( 'div' );
       el.innerHTML = MyHtmlPage;
   

   same issue like JQuery, the resources like image are loaded too.

3. Using a DomParser like this

   var el = new DOMParser().parseFromString(string, 'text/html');

This is not supported by all platform browser.

I wish someone can help me find a decent solution, I may otherwise use regexp but I hate those.